​The Felice Brothers (from the album From Dream to Dust

​The Felice Brothers (from the album From Dream to Dust available on Yep Roc Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Seven records in and The Felice Brothers continue to turn Folk music on its head. Their breezy, mid-tempo tunes have always had a bit of an avant-garde edge with a dash of wonderful weirdness. The band’s latest, From Dream to Dust, continues that eccentric exploration both lyrically and melodically. The Felice Brothers words drop a load of nonsensical references for both the real and the ridiculous to form an imaginative stream of conscious relay of the recognizable. The opener, “Jazz on The Autobahn”, is a tale of a sheriff and someone named Helen, a trumpet providing support for the Jazzy narrative. “The To-Do List” references the dust that hot fries leave on your fingers, “Valium” chants ‘Annie Oakley’ throughout a story that watches John Wayne movies at a beat-hotel on the Colorado-Utah border, and “Inferno” is a teenage dating tale that namedrops the films Fight Club, Inferno, and ‘Karate Kid.
Spoken word comes into From Dream to Dust with the sad confessionals “Be at Rest” when the narrator rattles off everything he lacks with random accomplishments. The record closes with an eight-minute narrative about a train ride that cleverly rhymes and references ‘Frances of Assisi to the fans of AC/DC’. The psychedelic Folk melodies of the Felice Brothers are the perfect support for the fragments of lyrical snippets that are half spoken and half sung. From Dream to Dust is a fun, thought provoking listen and the kind of thing that you’ll decipher like trying to unravel your weirdest dreams.  
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