The Horrible Crowes - Elsie

The Horrible Crowes - Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon partners with longtime friend Ian Perkins for a project that he describes as "a completely different beast and it’s just another side of the music that’s shaped my identity"...while the songs still bristle with a loose urgency, the Crowes fly in a more acoustic, stripped down direction in production, Anthem's slashing riff-rock arena firepower tempered to a simmering boil... // Release: Elsie (September 6, Side One Dummy) // Sounds like: Fallon's stated affection for the music of P.J. Harvey, Tom Waits and Joan "The Policewoman" Wasser is obvious throughout, his voice -- modulating between tender croak and full-throated, raspy roar -- serves these rough-edged, often jangling songs well...one of the best albums we've heard this year...

Quote: “I’ve always wanted to experiment with the darker side of soul music and one day we were just like, ‘let’s write some songs and see what they sound like’ and it turned out that it sounded great.” // What we like: wandering outside the lines of his comfort zone by changing up his guitar style and learning to write what he calls "orchestrated music" via piano, Fallon turns tracks like the soulful roots-rock of "Mary Ann" and the moody, menacing "Sugar" into spine-tingling revelations...the mix of jagged rock declarations ("Behold The Hurricane") with remarkably subtle whispers ("Cherry Blossoms") keeps you happily guessing what's coming next... 

The Horrible Crowes - "Black Betty and the Moon" (from Elsie)

The Horrible Crowes - "Behold the Hurricane" (from Elsie)