Smile Brigade December 27, 2007

Smile Brigade consider themselves to be a pop band, priding themselves on nice hooks and solid arrangements of great songs. Their sound sports a likely pairing of late sixties compression drenched drum sounds, and the Jesus And Mary Chains penchant for baritone vocals heavy on the reverb. See Me River (and The Dead Horse Creek) is an explanation to an apology that never happened. A spectacle of acoustic guitars guitars proudly stride under dark, baritone vocals. Glockenspiel and sparse drums gallop along a weathered road paved by chord organ and autoharp. Kerry Zettel viscid vocal melodies follow a long tradition of old country's tongue in cheek story telling and bewildered man.