The new album “Dark On Fire” from British folk duo Turin Brakes (Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian) was released this week in the UK and I’ve been patiently waiting to hear their new material for a long time. Patience is not one of my virtues unfortunately, so this release could not have come soon enough! Having given this album a few listens, I feel the boys are back on form when compared to their last release “Jack In A Box”…Don’t get me wrong, I did like the CD (they could make up a song and harmonize about a turd and I would probably still like it) and there were a few outstanding tracks but I feel they lost a little bit of the flow that was present on “The Optimist LP” and “Ether Song”. Ethan Johns is the producer on this album who has also worked with the 2 loves of my musical life, Ray LaMontagne *sigh* and Ryan Adams *sigh*…outstanding tracks for me right now are “Bye Pod”…”Otherside”…”For The Fire”…and the title track “Dark On Fire”…hell the whole album is fantastic. Buy it now!
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Nice props to a great band and a strong record. I still don’t get the US record industry waiting till next year to release this disc, while it’s US fanbase already orders or downloads from overseas?