CD REVIEW: CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Phosphorescent Harvest

CD REVIEW: CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD – Phosphorescent Harvest
Silver Arrow Records
April 2014
Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar
7/10

The former Black Crowes frontman opens his Brotherhood’s latest album with the sublimely breezy Shore Power, a track which bounces along on one of the grooviest organ & bass lines we’ve heard in an age.

The album continues in a jammy, dope smoke haze, with some lovely moments in About A Stranger, Meanwhile In The Gods…, Tornado and the, erm, slow burning Burn Slow, but it never quite reaches the heights of that opener again, always just bubbling under – a little too mellow to put in the extra few yards.

That’s not an entirely bad thing: this is an album that slips off its layers slowly, shedding its treasures like Salome.

There’s a cowboy western vibe prevalent throughout, and occasional flashes of The Stones at their most playful, and the band never drop out of their inimitable groove, led from the front by Robinson, who sounds like he’s having a ball. Or stoned. Or both.

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