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Auburn / Game Of Faith - CD review
It's a nice story that every few years the English band Auburn or their frontlady Liz Lenton, with their very steady supporting group around the guitarist Thomm Jutz , gives us a new album. Positive
and always gladly belongs alone because the (very American-listening)
British always come so wonderfully calm, yes, almost quiet, with all the
quality and cleverness. So far we have been able to present the albums Indian Summer (2012) and Nashville from 2014. Written
and composed the new disc "Game Of Faith" in the last months of last
year 2018 in a short, but all the more violent creative push, MissLenten suddenly overtook. And for the new record, the band flew across the pond to the New World to record it in a studio in the country Mecca Nashville.
But "Game Of Faith" has little to do with Country, or only marginally. Rather,
the five musicians involved here spread a very relaxed Roots and
Americana feeling, peppered with either very personal and - if not,
after all - very clever lyrics. Liz LentenSings
superficially on this whole album withdrawn, rather quietly, but this
could also be a very intelligent move, since the ear of the inclined
listener inevitably focuses more on the vocals. Sometimes
lascivious, sometimes sad and hurt, and here and there sometimes with
the mischief in the neck fourteen stories are told, which one likes to
listen to. Like the title song, which is a small reckoning with a former lover. The power relations are just turned around here, that goes lyrically in the direction of the number "Under My Thumb" by the Rolling Stones , only of course in the other, more sensitive as well as wiser feminine style.
The guitar playing by Thomm Jutz (who also directed and produced the recordings) always comes in very positively , which nevertheless always sets highlights, as it is perfectly suited to the song and without any volume. There is a lot of jazz feeling in there, without the six-stringed sounding like jazz. The bass of Mark Fain and the drums of Lynn Williams are
pleasant to hold back and still produce a wonderfully warm sound, which
can be imagined at about 2:00 clock in a small club or in a pub. Britt SavageRounds off the vocals of the Frontlady very well with their Harmony vocals. From
song titles like "I Do not Love Him", "Happy Nowhere", "It's Not Love"
or "I Drank" it can already be deduced that this is not always about
peace, joy and pancakes, but it does This story not only more
interesting, but the songs also deeper and fuller.
Liz Lenten and Auburn have succeeded with "Game Of Faith", a wonderfully laid-back record that you just love to hang up again and again. You can neither sing a track out, nor is there a failure on this disc. What goes back to the already mentioned history, that all pieces were created in a short time in a Aufwasch. Respect for so much quality.
Line-up Auburn:
Liz Lenten (lead vocals)
Thomm Jutz (guitars)
Mark Fain (bass)
Lynn Williams (drums)
Britt Savage (harmony vocals)
Thomm Jutz (guitars)
Mark Fain (bass)
Lynn Williams (drums)
Britt Savage (harmony vocals)
Tracklist "Game Of Faith":
- Game Of Faith
- Bad Girl, Good Woman
- I do not love Him
- I drink
- Prosecco-filled profiles
- Trinidad
- Red velvet pillow
- Happy Nowhere
- Misshapen Fruit
- It's Not Love
- Float To Blue
- Spoke In The Wheel
- Like I Do
- His arms
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