Brother Thunder - Staring Into The Sun (Hot Dog Records)

The best music is made not by going willingly and predictably with the flow but by deliberately running unstoppable sonic forces into immovable musical objects. When the dust settles, you are left either with a mangled musical mess, just another creative experiment that didn’t pay off, or something wholly new, a fresh new take on the familiar. When it works, you make music that turns heads. When it works well, you get labelled visionaries. When it works brilliantly, you get to call yourself Brother Thunder.

“Staring Into The Sun” seems to have it all – running on cool rock ‘n’ soul energy, The Brothers weave funky grooves into psychedelic moves, add sensual and sensitive musical moods, blend relaxing tones with seductive textures and then somehow make the whole thing as infectious and accessible as the most obvious and immediate pop song.

They work with many different sounds and styles but somehow manage to find enough space for everything to breathe and, in doing so, let those various musical elements do their job effectively. And if the various sonic strands, the musical building blocks that they use to create their music, might be familiar, it is the scintillating sonic architecture that they create using them that is the real joy to behold here.

Music that is more than the sum of its parts? Absolutely!

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