Artist of the Week: Brown Shoe
Brown Shoe is composed of four Brothers and another fella residing in California that are as they say, "aiming to make music that will change the tone of your day”.
Their melodic narratives with rhythm sections and subtle guitars and keys will make you drift away and forget about all your troubles. Their music is confrontational, vulnerable, warm and discomforting all at the same time. Genres that they draw close to are Indie Rock and Post-Rock, with some Pop-sensibilities.
Their most recent album was released on October 18th, The Gift Horse. I had the privilege to review this record and it will swallow you whole: mind, body and soul. It’s a perfect compilation of the many vulnerable human emotions that are felt.
I read that Brown Shoe was four months in to recording this album and they were halfway done when Ryan (vocals, guitar and keys) fell mysteriously ill. He spent a month in the ICU, due to what turned out to be a rare, fluke blood infection.
In between hospital stays Ryan wrote two additional songs that he later went in to record, “Sick Man” and “Sweet Crazy Baby”. Both songs are about his on-again-off-again girlfriend’s erratic presence throughout and her eventually deserting him before he was released from the hospital.
The Gift Horse is definitely an album that tells a story about love gained and lost twice over. It’s an exquisitely well-done album!
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