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Review: 'BROS. LANDRETH, THE'
'Let It Lie'   

-  Label: 'Slate Creek Records'
-  Genre: 'Rock' -  Release Date: '24th July 2015'

Our Rating:
This Canadian band's debut borrows so heavily from the 'classic' soft rock of the early 70s that it comes over as a poor relation to bands like Little Feat and ZZ Top.

Recorded during a cold winter in a straw bale house in southern Manitoba, the album has been warmly received in their homeland where it won The Roots & Traditional Album Of The Year at 2015's Junos.

The Landreth brothers are Joey and David from Winnipeg with the former being the four-piece band's front man and main songwriter.

This is the kind of record veteran DJ Bob Harris will gush over and, although you cannot fault the playing or polished production values, it serves as a reminder of why the world still needs a Punk Rock attitude.

The band even invite the overused Dad Rock label since Landreth senior, Wally, wrote I Am The Fool and sings one verse on Runaway Train.

The break up songs are romantically inclined but passionless affairs bordering on sentimentalism. For example. the slow, sleepy Nothing includes turgid lines like: "If the grass lost its green / If the sea lost its blue / I'd see rose-coloured memories / Of the days I lived with you".

This, together with the fact that all rough edges have been diligently smoothed away, means that what remains is a slick, mellow, unchallenging and profoundly conservative album.

The Bros. Landreth's website
  author: Martin Raybould

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BROS. LANDRETH, THE - Let It Lie