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Baby - Bosque Brown
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With her debut LP, 2005’s Bosque Brown Plays Mara Lee Miller, Mara Lee Miller introduced us to every aspect of her adopted Denton, Texas persona. We were fooled into thinking what a lost treasure Mara Lee Miller must have been, as we fell under the lovely spell of Bosque Brown’s country-tinged dirges of love, loss, and faith — all under the guise that the latter was covering the music of the former. Bosque Brown and Mara Lee Miller turned out to be one; yet no matter how linked the personas, the personalities of both were separated into two but equal entities. Which song was Mara Lee Miller and which song was Bosque Brown — that is to say, which was the performer and which was a part of the everyday person — became a guessing game with each passing listen. Now four years later, Miller has delivered a new variation of the game with Baby. There’s no mistaking that Baby is all Bosque Brown. It’s powerful and unrestrained, an album free to flow like the river that gives Miller her pseudonym. Yet, there are still hints of the woman behind the mask. Baby, for its fuller, richer sound, is just as shy and tender as Miller’s first full-length foray. The pronounced difference is confidence, and the willingness to believe in herself translates to a stronger album — not reliant on Miller’s past heroes, but on the inspiration she draws from her daily life....full text |
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Bosque Brown’s lead vocalist, Mara Lee Miller, doesn’t have a conventionally beautiful voice. In the group’s sophomore effort, Baby, she often comes across rougher than what you would expect from a studio-cut album. However, like a finely aged whiskey, the quality of Miller’s intonation doesn’t come from pure distillation, but rather the imperfections deliberately added into the chemistry for a fuller flavor. Where a Leslie Feist, for instance, sounds like she has been in voice lessons since shortly after leaving the fetal stage, Miller has largely ignored the orthodox pitch perfection of contemporaries in favor of an unpolished dusty twang. And her voice is far more interesting for it. Baby is a collection of 13 uncut diamonds that are very much rooted in the Alt/Country tradition of Miller’s native Texas (the closest comparison I can think of would be fellow Lone Star Jolie Holland). Where Bosque Brown’s debut and follow up EP were minimalist, Baby is accomplished through the addition of keys and backup vocals a more layered sound while still retaining the solitude of Miller’s lyrics. “Train Song,” for instance, utilizes both Miller’s voice as well as that of her sister Gina Milligan, all over a bouncy piano and drums beat. It’s one of the more upbeat tunes on the record as opposed to the melancholy “Texas Sun” which features pedal steel so muted it sounds like its being played on another planet. The balance between happy and sad still tilts overwhelmingly towards the latter, but that, more than anything, is pure Country tradition (at least it used to be). The literally on and off song “On and Off” (it reappears in three stages throughout the album) is a great example of heartbroken songs can be starkly gorgeous. In the completely a capella ballad, Miller’s only accompaniment is her sister’s equally evocative delivery....full text |
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Bosque Brown is the perfect place to start if you're a Cat Power fan and need something to fill the void until she's over her covers phase. The two acts are so similar, in fact, that if you alternated songs from them on a mixtape, casual listeners wouldn't notice the slightest difference. Bosque Brown are a band, but Baby's instrumentation is so scarce that they'll easily be mistaken for a solo project, fronted by singer and principal songwriter Mara Lee Miller. This is only the Texas-based group's second full-length, but they're already grasping for the coattails of Cat Power's lauded You Are Free....full text |
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