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Category: Music
The complete hearing of the album “Stronger At The Broken Places” by the American band “North Twin” from Seattle keeps having me reach the same conclusion: this could just as well have been the new Los Lobos CD. As far as style as well as choice of songs this quartet leans very strongly toward the ace band out of LA and also the vocal achievements of singer Tony Fulgham more than 100% resemble those of David Hidalgo, the singer of the successful Wolves. That said we wish absolutely not to claim that all we're dealing with here is merely a copycat of Los Lobos. Already they can take credit for having worked out eleven rock solid original compositions for this album. Bassist and background vocalist Rebecca Young is very noticeably present and the further combination of Tim DiJulio's guitar playing and the drums of Rick Cranford determine the sound quality of North Twin. Solid rock 'n roll with bluesy guitar work and top-notch vocal work form the basis of this band on their second album. By their own account the recording of their first record "Falling apart" in 2007, was heavily influenced by the breast cancer diagnosis of which Rebecca Young was informed after the band had barely spent three days in the studio. Luckily, this dark period now completely in the past, they were once again able to go all out on this new record of which the American press claims influences of Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash and Drive-By-Truckers can be heard. But as far as Rootstime goes, we're sticking all the way with the Los Lobos comparison, even more so because we are unconditional fans of that group and we're all for the expansion of that type of music by other bands. We are rather impressed by songs such as "Hope It Goes Away" (a typical David Hidalgo-ballad), the robust rockers "Wreck", "Clear As Day" (very nice "copy/paste" - exercise of "Good Morning Aztlan"), "Going Down", and "Roll On", the Tom Waits insinuating waltz "High and Low" which sounds irresistibly beautiful and the soft country ballad "I Remember You". Let's have a lot more of that good stuff real soon. Because let this be clear: North Twin has a sublime future of their own in front of them with their music that caters to a very large group of unconditional fans.
4:30 PM
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