We have had to wait too damn long for this CD.<\/p>\n
For those of you who missed it, Carbon Leaf has been making a serious claim to being the greatest American rock band currently recording for some time. They received multiple indie recognitions, and their debut CD Indian Summer<\/i> was one of the best things I\u2019ve ever heard and a past Album of the Year from yours truly.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve taken their time with the follow-up, Love Loss Hope Repeat<\/i>, and the wait is almost completely worth it. LLHR<\/i> is a brilliant, brilliant piece of work, wrapped in elegant, catchy harmonies and magnificent song-writing. The sound of the CD is spare and yet incredibly rich, with great production from longtime veteran Peter Collins (Rush, Elton John, Bon Jovi, others). Collins does have a very light touch on LLHR<\/i>, which allows the texture of Carbon Leaf\u2019s music to come through.<\/p>\n
First and foremost, vocalist Barry Privett continues to be one of the most expressive singers recording today. His delivery is alternately detached and fervent, running the entire gamut of emotions inherent in the eclectic tones on LLHR<\/i>. (Eclectic would indeed be the term. The band\u2019s website lists Privett\u2019s three favorite songs: Simon and Garfunkel\u2019s \u201cScarborough Fair,\u201d A Flock of Seagulls\u2019 \u201cI Ran,\u201d and the Alan Parsons Project\u2019s \u201cTime.\u201d Has this guy been raiding my record collection?)<\/p>\n
The musicianship of Carter Gravatt and Terry Clark on guitar and mandolin, Jordan Medas on bass and Scott Milstead on drums is superb; every song has musical highlights that leave you scratching your head in wonder.<\/p>\n
Those songs are the centerpiece of the work, and they do not fail to amaze — with perhaps one exception; I suspect there\u2019s something about \u201cA Girl And Her Horse\u201d that I just don\u2019t get. Maybe it\u2019s my gender (male). Past that, there are almost too many gems to count: \u201cTexas Stars,\u201d the title track, \u201cLearn To Fly,\u201d \u201cUnder The Wire,\u201d \u201cComfort\u201d\u2026 they\u2019re all brilliant. Rising above that high-water mark, though, is the incredible \u201cThe War Was In Color.\u201d There are very few songs that move me to tears. This is one of them.<\/p>\n
You owe it to yourself to get a copy of Carbon Leaf\u2019s Love Loss Hope Repeat<\/i>.\u00a0You\u2019ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7055],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-39934","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-carbon-leaf","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39934"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}