When you submit your stuff to a radio station, the little things sometimes determine whether it gets reviewed. The Tide and the Current hand wrote at the bottom of the onesheet, “Small label. Small band. GREAT record. Help us! Thanks. Jeff.”
Jeff must work for the label, because there are no Jeffs in Telegraph Canyon. At any rate, it was enough to make me decide to review the album. Chuck Brown goes along and sings on tracks the way a lot of late ’90s indie bands did. Megatron Jones and The Dambuilders comes to mind. The band is from Ft. Worth, Texas, and that does not surprise me one bit. “Safe on the Outside” personifies this best.
All the songs accomplish the same thing. They’re as dependable as McDonald’s. “Captain” stands out a bit if you want a slower song. The strings or whatever those are give it just a hint of an alt country feel.
“Dressed in Fight” is my favorite song on the album. Musically, it sounds like a classic Rilo Kiley song, and the male leads work wonderfully.
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