The Felice Brothers (from the album Valley of Abandoned Songs

The Felice Brothers (from the album Valley of Abandoned Songs

The Felice Brothers (from the album Valley of Abandoned Songs available on Million Stars Records) (by Danny McCloskey)
The Felice Brothers do what they do best as they open Valley of Abandoned Songs, their recent release. They a tell story. On opening cut, The Felice Brothers introduce a lady on stage at a West Hollywood venue with “Crime Scene Queen”. Asking ‘are you as high as Mr. Albert was’ when entering the observations of “Flowers by The Roadside”, fleshing out lost love with “Black Is My True Love’s Hair”, floating on the gothic textures of “Let Me Ride Away with the Horseman”, and speaking of “Birdies” on a front porch jam. The experience of a song from The Felice Brothers is an all-encompassing immersion. The musical background as much a part of the story as the words, Valley of Abandoned Songs collects thirteen tracks that stage stand-alone stories against melodies that drift and march throughout album.
 
Ian Felice hears Valley of Abandoned Songs as ‘a tightrope walk between light and dark in these songs between the magical wonder of existence and the ever-present sense of impending doom that comes with it. This album is my way of reconciling those things’. The tracks support the definition when “New York by Moonlight” finds beauty in the over-urban sprawl of the city as raggedy acoustic chords begin the marching rhythms for “Tomorrow is Just a Dream Away” while a church-basement piano pounds out a beat for the spirit serving questions of “It’s Midnight and the Doves Are in Tears” and “Stranger’s Arms” slowly walks across a west coast memory falling like the rain outside in the story. Valley of Abandoned Songs showcases the stories of The Felice Brothers, spinning from the fables of “Racoon, Rooster and Crow” through bright-beat wishful optimism of “Younger as the Days Go By”. (by Danny McCloskey)
 
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