The Red West, Atlantic
I don’t know about you but I sure prefer an album that gets better with repeated listens, as opposed to one that loses power, and that’s what this album is. The Goodies from North Carolina meet Hawksley Workman. Trip Shakespeare mixed with Suffer Machine. Horns. There’s something they put in the water in Orange County, I’m sure of it. Lots of noise and effects provide a party feel, but there’s good musicianship and a simple musical sincerity as well. Like The Red Hot Chili Peppers in rain, or something. I find it hard to believe these breezy surf soundscapes, with jam band joy, are to be filed under Alternative Rock. It makes sense to me that they’ve opened for Counting Crows and Dave Matthews and draw vocal comparisons to Bono. After they opened for sold out Silverchair shows in Toronto, they’re a lesson here for indie musicians: The Red West released their self titled album independently last year and Atlantic’s version has been re-mixed and re-mastered and features just one new song. They made it themselves, and it is good.
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