Browse by Artist: BR. DANIELSON

Artist:	BR. DANIELSON
Title:	Brother is to Son
Label:	SECRETLY CANADIAN
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	SC 066CD

"This sixth Danielson album has been a long time coming for Daniel Smith. All the special-ness that the full band brought to previous Danielson albums is fully intact. The earnest vocal chirp of head Danielson himself is still there, not to mention the impassioned and punk-inspired hard strum of his acoustic guitar. He still leads his folk jamboree through the familial boy-girl harmonies as the banjos, bells, piano keys and jaw harp all teem with kinetic energy, like a deconstructionalist jug band led by a man who follows in the bold footsteps of Sun Ra, Don Van Vliet and Johnny Lydon as a truly original art terrorist. What is unique about this new window into the Danielson brain-cage is its pervasive tenderness, most clearly manifested in the ever-broadening vocal range of Daniel. Taking a cue from Dylan's Bringing it All Back Home, Brother is to Son opens confidently and intensely while slowly turning in on itself by its second half, on which Smith brings a vulnerability unmatched on his previous five albums."

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