In peeling things back to the band’s core, Life In The Dark makes good on both the band’s adherence to a timeless folk sound and their own eccentricities, which shine more clearly than ever as captivating strengths.
On Life In The Dark, the Felice Brothers continue their decade-plus quest of chronicling our crooked national pathologies with quirky humor, slacker indifference and guarded folkie optimism.
Given how good the Felices are at what they do, fans are still likely to enjoy Life in the Dark's rambling take on American roots music, but casual observers might find their minds wandering by the time the album makes it into its final innings.
The Brothers, isolated in their own, aging land of country-folk, habituate to gather around the fire in the evening and tell their stories, but who is paying attention?
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