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| Pitchfork |
 A few months back, Bradford Cox's blog featured a YouTube clip in which a teenager recorded himself covering Bon Iver, Beach House, Panda Bear, and (of course) Deerhunter, along with some original material. Regardless of the quality of the renditions, what struck me was the illustration of instantaneous influence in 2009 captured in real time-- once even the bigger underground names would have had to fester in obscurity for a while before their presence was felt in a larger context. But as it becomes increasingly easy to record as well as distribute music, it's become increasingly likely that bands that are forming right this second could be heard from six months or a year from now, not only before they've taken the time to establish their own identity, but while their most obvious precedents might still be riding out their last record release cycle.
Take, for example, Our Brother the Native, still teens when signed to the esteemed FatCat imprint. Even if that's like getting an Ivy acceptance letter, they took massive student loans from contemporaries like the Books and especially Animal Collective up-to-and-including-Sung Tongs. Tooth & Claw, their proper debut, was released in 2006, the very, very tail-end of "freak-folk as an ongoing concern with the indie kids." It was promising and flawed and in love with its source material, as to be expected, but at least they were on the right track-- it's sort of disingenuous to reward youth qua youth, but likewise, it's tough to pass judgment if you were covering Sponge songs in your garage at the same age (um, not that I'd know)....full text |
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| Earz-mag |
| Having never heard Our Brother The Native (Josh Bertram and Chaz Knapp, both performing vocals and various instruments) before I received a copy of their third full-length, Sacred Psalms, I had no pretences about their sound or style, but even now if you plonked a new album of theirs down in front of me I wouldn’t know what to expect. Sacred Psalms is a kind of luscious indie-folk-fusion. Utilising a raft of atmospheric tools and instruments (bells, whistles, steel drums, percussion, spoken word samples, field noise), global styles (there are hints of gamelan, bluegrass and arabic music, to name a few reference points) and literate, yearning, group vocals, Our Brother… have fashioned a very singular sound which is conceptually dark, but which glimmers with the light of its creators. Exceptional moments include the percussive bustle and euphoric chorus of Manes, and the banjo-driven Someday, with its rueful refrain of “I’ll find my way back home, someday soon.” An intelligent and intriguing album....full text |
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| Contactmusic |
Michigan-cum-California based three-piece Our Brother The Native really are an exercise in creativity over any thesis of commercial nous. Their experimental voyages may have started as simplistic post-rock passages but listen more closely to the accomplished dynamics of 'We Are The Living' off second album 'Make Amends For We Are Merely Vessels' and you'll stumble across a group of artists quite simply open to absolutely anything when it comes to removing barriers and crossing boundaries on a musical scale.
The fact that the three focal members of Our Brother The Native - Josh Bertram, Chaz Knapp and Kevin McKay - are barely out of their teens also speaks volumes, and 'Sacred Psalms', astonishingly their third long player (debut 'Tooth And Claw' was written while founder members Bertram and the now-departed John Michael Foss were still at school aged fifteen), is a triumph in ambition and adventure, even if the end results don't always quite live up to its creators obvious allusions to grandiosity....full text |
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