City and Colour – Bring Me Your Love


Band: City and Colour
Album: Bring Me Your Love
Genre: Acoustic / Indie
Label: Vagrant

Tracks:
1. Forgive Me
2. Confessions
3. The Death of Me
4. Body In A Box
5. Sleeping Sickness
6. What Makes A Man?
7. Waiting…
8. Constant Knot
9. Against The Grain
10. The Girl
11. Sensible Heart
12. As Much As I Ever Could

Last year, Thrice front man Dustin Kensrue released his solo album, “Please Come Home.” It was a folk laced getaway from the hard sounds of his other band. This year, we find a similar album, though not a debut like Kensrue’s, coming from Alexisonfire front man Dallas Green, or City and Colour, as he is known in this world. “Bring Me Your Love,” is Green’s 2nd solo full length and his first put out through Vagrant Records. It’s an acoustic record with hushed vocals and light accompaniment that I feel brings a breath of fresh air to the relatively stale state of music as of late.

When approaching side projects, I’ve always tried to keep little expectations, because it usually turns out to be some “passion” project that really doesn’t equal the greatness of the performer’s main act. However, by the end of the first track, “Forgive Me,” I was hooked. Green’s whisper like vocal lines twist a tale of love about to go wrong and even hints at thinking it will be him that ruins everything. It’s quite a leap from the Alexisonfire days, but this is Green truly bearing his soul in honesty you don’t find in most albums anymore. Production wise, the sound perfectly fits the mood. There is no open air sounds like on most acoustic albums, but rather a perfect balance of guitar and vocals that tels the listener, “come and see me and me alone, no tricks, just me.” The lead track, Waiting…,” shows Green telling people to tell love goodbye and enjoy life because if we don’t enjoy it, we’re all just waiting to die. It’s moments like this that really showcase his ability to make amazing music. Mixing a message of loneliness and the little things that make life great makes for compelling songwriting that any listener cannot deny. Other themes found on the album involve similar themes of love, life, and death, but through it all, Green keeps it fresh with new melodies and catchy choruses that would fit on any instrument, but fit so perfectly on guitar that it’s hard to even remember this is the guy from Alexisonfire.

City and Colour is one side project that is poised to become bigger than Green’s original act. He has managed to craft an album that is full of great song writing, catchy guitar playing, and during this somehow managed to not only sing sad songs, but songs that can inspire. “Bring Me Your Love,” should be on your list of album to get into and if you already have it, tell others to do the same. If you have any love for acoustic music, this album will fill your heart and ears for quite awhile.

*Written by: James Shotwell*
GRADE: 8.5/10

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