Cowboy Junkies - Sing In My Meadow

Cowboy Junkies - Michael Timmins describes the jammy, rough-edged new Junkies album as "the psychedelic, blues-inspired forays we are so fond of exploring on stage", the mesmerizing, low-keyed alt-folk of what most would consider the outfits' signature sound tossed out in exchange for a gritty power trio kick, or as Timmins puts it: "overdriven and thick with electricity"...the third of four releases in the band's 18-month Nomad Series of new albums // Release: Sing In My Meadow (October 18, Latent) // Sounds like: the dark melancholy that has haunted the band's sound for more than two decades is still there in spades -- as are Margo Timmins languid sigh of a voice -- but now the musical brush strokes are bold and raw, feedback and distortion important elements in creating lengthy meditations of coiled, eruptive firepower...

Quote: "We never set out to be different, bold or surprising. I think if we thought about it, we would freeze. We just have ideas. Start with them and then the albums grow and develop as we work on them. It is definitely a bonus that we are friends and family. In order to accomplish anything in life you have to able to communicate, to be heard and understood, to feel free to have input, etc. We have always been able to do that." - Margo Timmins What we like: a band that still has plenty to say with decidedly forceful (and convincing) ways to say it ends up challenging themselves as much as the listener...the fact that the album was recorded in a brief four-day session adds to the immediacy and freshness of the warts an and all philosophy, what you might lose in subtle textures you pick up in the freewheeling, if occasionally scattershot, instrumental play, as on the explosive "Continental Drift"...

Cowboy Junkies - "Sing In My Meadow" (from Sing In My Meadow)

Cowboy Junkies - "Continental Drift" (from Sing In My Meadow)