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Pretty much everyone whose into alternative music
of any shape or form will know who Alexisonfire
are, but some would get confused if you mentioned
Dallas Green, well that is until now. Dallas Green
is the vocalist of Alexisonfire and also the man
behind the project City And Colour that happens
to be Dallas Green's solo side project. He released
his debut solo album back in 2005 titled 'Sometimes'
and the album went on and sold 7000 copies in the
UK alone which doesn’t seem like major figures
but is quite impressive from a low key release and
a low key club tour that followed the release. Well
Dallas Green is now back with his second solo studio
album 'Bring Me York love' an album that really
showcases Green's signature vocals with themes of
love and life cropping up all over the album.
'Bring Me Your Love' is a heart warming album
where every note is sung with passion and every
chord is played with feeling, if you have never
heard anything by City And Colour and are expecting
a solo version of Alexisonfire with a mad screamo
assault then you will be extremely dissapointed,
instead we get true Dallas Green in the singer-songwriter
form equipped with an acoustic guitar and beautiful
vocals that really demonstrate the mans talents
as a singer, songwriter and most of all a musician.
The album opens up with 'Forgive Me', the song
is really moving and Dallas sounds like he is
singing his heart out. 'Confessions' follows on
from the open track in pretty much the same way
but adds in some acoustic guitar solo's for a
bit of variety. 'The Death Of Me' is a really
upbeat sounding song, well as upbeat as acoustic
music can get, with fast guitar strumming and
uplifting vocals.
With acoustic music it’s quite hard to
add variety to the sound, you can either strum
fast or slow and sing like your depressed or like
you are extremely happy, well Dallas Green has
added a bit of variety to the sound by bringing
in a harmonica for 'Body In A Box' and it really
does something special for the song making it
stand out from the rest. 'As Much As I Ever Could'
finishes off the album and starts off sounding
quite eerie vocally.
When the words singer songwriter are mentioned
to most people they are quick to think of James
Blunt, James Morrison and Jack Johnson, all artists
that I personally think are a disgrace to the
music business and gives the genre a bad name.
So bring on City And Colour a true solo project
and a true singer songwriter who is a true musician
who can transform his sound and ideas for different
projects, and now Alexisonfire are bigger than
ever, his City And Colour side project should
truly take off and bring the man the success he
deserves as a solo artist as well.
5/5
Review by Trigger |
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Dallas Green (Vocals, Guitar) |
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1. Forgive Me
2. Confessions
3. Death Of Me
4. Body In A Box
5. Sleeping Sickness
6. What Makes A Man
7. Waiting
8. Constant Knot
9. Against The Grain
10. Girl
11. Sensible Heart
12. As Much As I Ever Could |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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