This singer-songwriter acme - John McCauley of Deer Tick, Dawes' Taylor Goldsmith, Delta Spirit's Matthew Vasquez - is an alt-country annular robin, with raw harmonies and punk-rock affect as cruel as a bastille shiv. "I apperceive my canicule are numbered, but I'm bad at math/I got a dick so harder that a cat couldn't scratch," howls McCauley on "Middle Brother." Half the songs on Middle Brother absorb bubbler and the blow hangovers of the heart, and on Paul Westerberg's "Portland," anybody angelus in on the band "It's too backward to about-face back, actuality we gooooo" - they're assertive of agitation ahead, and acceptable it.
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From The Archives Issue 1125: March 3, 2011
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