Black Keys front man Dan Auerbach has a new band, the Arcs, and their debut album is streaming now via NPR. The Arcs' debut album is called Yours, Dreamily, and it has a more loosey-goosey psychedelic feel to it than the Keys' blues-rock. Auerbach has said of the album, “I wanted everything to flow [and] be cohesive. A lot of the songs bleed one into the other, a lot like the Grateful Dead — my favorite records that they did. So I’ve got a lot of connected songs. It’s basically everything I love about music all wrapped up into one record — that’s all!” The Arcs also consist of Truth and Soul Records founder Leon Michels, Black Keys touring bassist Richard Swift, Menahan Street Band member Homer Steinweiss, Amy Winehouse collaborator Nick Movshon, guitarist Kenny Vaughan, and an all-female mariachi band called Mariachi Flor de Toloache. Yours, Dreamily comes out...
- 8/27/2015
- by Greg Cwik
- Vulture
-- Charles Bradley, "Victim of Love" (Dunham)
Charles Bradley is preoccupied with love on his latest album, but it's something of a stylistic leap on a handful of songs that makes his latest album stand out.
Buried at the center of the album is a small run of fuzzy songs that push Bradley into rockin' psychedelic territory and add a different dimension to the 64-year-old soul shouter's sound. More important, they should fit right in onstage, where "The Screaming Eagle of Soul" truly shines.
Bradley's Menahan Street Band opens "Love Bug Blues" with a vibrato horn solo meant to mimic the sound of a buzzing bee, then launches into a vibrant funk line that fits the former James Brown impersonator's aged voice perfectly. The band extends the run through the intermission instrumental "Dusty Blue," with its shimmery keys and breathy woodwinds.
Then Bradley and band really crank things up with "Confusion,...
Charles Bradley is preoccupied with love on his latest album, but it's something of a stylistic leap on a handful of songs that makes his latest album stand out.
Buried at the center of the album is a small run of fuzzy songs that push Bradley into rockin' psychedelic territory and add a different dimension to the 64-year-old soul shouter's sound. More important, they should fit right in onstage, where "The Screaming Eagle of Soul" truly shines.
Bradley's Menahan Street Band opens "Love Bug Blues" with a vibrato horn solo meant to mimic the sound of a buzzing bee, then launches into a vibrant funk line that fits the former James Brown impersonator's aged voice perfectly. The band extends the run through the intermission instrumental "Dusty Blue," with its shimmery keys and breathy woodwinds.
Then Bradley and band really crank things up with "Confusion,...
- 4/1/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Last year, at the age of 62, Charles Bradley released his debut album, No Time For Dreaming, on Daptone Records. The album was widely acclaimed for its honest and heartfelt subject matter, Bradley’s unchained wail and the backing instrumentation of the Menahan Street Band. What stands out more than anything, however, is what Bradley went through to get where he is today....
- 7/19/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
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