Elliott BROOD Release Country Today. New Album Completes Town and Country Cycle
With the release of Country, Elliott BROOD officially enters their Town and Country era. Country completes an album cycle that travels through familiar haunts and charges down new paths, all in the name of growth, love, and family.
On Country, their second album in 12 months, Elliott BROOD plays on both the genre and its signposts. The trio deftly matches sounds with settings, opting for twangy, electric guitars, sad but true humour-tinged lyrics, and obligatory whiskey references to create a cross-border quilt of stories that are both personal and from characters passing.
Country highlight “C’Mon Let’s Go” starts up like a car engine, powered by a rumbling organ and a sense of melancholic mayhem. Alternating between major and minor, sweet, soft verses and grungy, spooky choruses, “C’mon Let’s Go” calls us on a tour of local hamlets with mischief in mind. The distorted backing vocals and guitars playfully add texture to the escapist’s tale.
Hitting on southern rock moments with “Postcard Pretty” and the old Memphis waltzes of “They Never Want to Sing Along,” Country winds its way through the boundary lines at a frenzied pace then slows to gentler speeds, bringing us satisfyingly around switchbacks and through long, sparse stretches. Windsor, ON may be their city of origin but the BROOD are clearly country lovers at heart.
Paying homage to a few of their musical heroes with covers of “Out of Time” (The Rolling Stones) and Rodney Crowell’s “Bluebird Wine,” Elliott BROOD shares pieces of their personal lives and tell their favourite tales of country and kinfolk alike.
Over their twenty years as a band, Elliott BROOD has earned the familiarity that’s felt on both sides of the Town and Country coin. Home is about who you’re with, wherever you are.
2024 TOUR DATES:
Krefeld, DE: Kulturrampe, Apr 16
St Gilles Croix de Vie, FR: RockSea, Apr 19
Paris, FR: La Boule Noire, Apr 20
Haarlem, NL: Roots of Heaven, Apr 21
Lint, BE: ’t Groot Verzet, Apr 22
Köln, DE: MTC, Apr 23
Wiesbaden, DE: Schlachthof, Apr 24
Berlin, DE: Privatclub, Apr 25
Hamburg, DE: Nochtwache, Apr 26
Deventer, NL: Des Konings Festival, Apr 27
Middelburg, NL: Kaffee ‘t Hof, Apr 28
Lincoln, ON: Redstone Winery, Aug 8
Kingsville, ON: Kingsville Music Festival, Aug 9
Grande Prairie, AB: Bear Creek Music Festival, Aug 16
Kawartha Lakes, ON: The Grove Theatre, Sept 4
Tickets and show details HERE.
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