FALLON, Brian - Not Bad For New Jersey - 'BEACHSIDE BLUE' VINYL LP
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Brian FALLON
Not Bad For New Jersey
Nash York US
'beachside blue' vinyl LP (indie exclusive) Cat: 731851471953Rel: 14 Sep 26
Folk/Americana Side 1 - Track 1. Not Bad For New Jersey Side 1 - Track 2. Better Before Side 1 - Track 3. Pearls Side 1 - Track 4. The Big Sleep (feat Donovan Woods) Side 1 - Track 5. On Good Terms (feat Lori Mckenna) Side 2 - Track 1. Nobody Likes You In NYC Side 2 - Track 2. Love At The End Of The World (feat Brandon Flowers) Side 2 - Track 3. Somewhere You Shouldn't Be (feat Phil Collen) Side 2 - Track 4. Fading On Me Side 2 - Track 5. Walkin' Through The Garden Side 2 - Track 6. Wolf By The River (feat Marc Ribot)
When New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem first appeared in 2006, they were quickly associated with an American punk scene that had started leaning towards more mainstream sounds. As it turns out, The Gaslight Anthem and their frontman Brian Fallon were ardent students of American popular music, and it constantly infused their songs.
Nowhere is this more evident than on Brian Fallon's latest album, Not Bad For New Jersey. It kicks off with the title track, which for the first five seconds sounds like it's going to be paying homage to The Clash, before veering off into a straight up rock tune that Springsteen and Petty would have been proud to have written. As the album progresses, Fallon dips in and out of genres, creating an album crammed full of heartfelt songs as he goes. The Americana-flavoured 'Love At The End Of The World' features a beautiful and haunting vocal from The Killers' Brandon Flowers. It's Fallon at his most vulnerable, but most importantly, he doesn't overdo it. It's a song that lays its heart bare, and then goes home to sob on the sofa, leaving a strange sense of longing in its wake. 'Better Before' initially strips things back, sounding not dissimilar to a particular song by The Police, before it heads into full-on singalong territory. Something Fallon does frequently is to marry emotionally charged, sometimes damaged themes to almost jubilant-sounding choruses, and there's no doubting it packs a punch. On 'Nobody Likes You In NYC', Fallon punctures pretension and false idols with something approaching cynicism and marries it to a power-pop anthem. It's glorious. These songs might sound a little safe, and they're destined for a lot of radio play, but underneath the sheen, there's a lot going on. Fallon has clearly spent years immersed in the great American songwriting tradition, and Not Bad For New Jersey wears those influences proudly. It's instantly familiar, accessible rock music that still manages to leave a little room for emotional openness and insecurity.
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