As near as I can tell, what largely separates a country outfit from an alt-country ensemble is the number of tattoos the band sports, the age of the band, and whether or not the band came from the hardcore punk scene. Well, rising artist Case Garrett doesn’t appear to have sleeves, certainly isn’t a spring chicken, and probably doesn’t own a Minor Threat LP, but he’s finding himself somewhere amid the alt-country umbrella on this debut album, Aurora<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Opening track \u201cWhat Can I Say\u201d firmly plants Garrett in the arena of country music with its loud fiddles and moaning pedal steel, but things switch gears right into the solemn \u201cLong Way Down.\u201d A maudlin moment with aching strings and heavy introspection, it’s a deep few minutes. \u201cGoing Down To Mobile,\u201d on the other hand, is a fun, indie rock influenced strummer that is reminiscent of The Lemonheads with a country makeover, which is complemented well by the Wilco-like atmosphere of \u201cShe Never Liked Elvis.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second half of the album dives into swampier, Southern rock with a cover of J.J. Cale’s \u201cCall Me The Breeze,\u201d where freewheelin’ banjos make this one of the album’s best, though the warm, feel good mood of \u201cThe Thought Of You\u201d is a close second. The most collaborative effort here is the dual gender vocals of \u201cFill ‘Er Up.\u201d The album exits on the alternate mix of \u201cGoing Down To Mobile,\u201d which isn’t far off from the earlier version on the album, as near as I can tell, but it’s a decent enough tune that twice isn’t a real crime.<\/p>\n
Honky-tonk, Americana, classic country, and variations of folk music are all sounds that Garrett knows intimately and displays well across these seemingly autobiographical songs. At just over 30 minutes, it’s a quick listen, but one that can only leave us to wonder what sort of greatness Case Garrett has for us in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":33347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10099],"rating":[5612],"class_list":["post-45161","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-case-garrett","rating-rating-b-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45161","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45161"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45161"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}