From Dreams to Dust＜限定盤＞

フェリス・ブラザースの8作目となるスタジオ・アルバムをリリース!!

アメリカン・ルーツ・ミュージックをはじめ、様々な音楽ジャンルを吸収したアメリカーナ～フォーク・サウンドで活動するTHE FELICE BROTHERSが8作目となるスタジオ・アルバムをリリース。近年、詩集も出版し詩人としても才能を発揮するリードシンガーソングライターIAN FELICEによる滑らかな語り口のヴォーカル、 ポジティヴで多幸感溢れる"JAZZ ON THE AUTOBAHN"を等を収録した全12曲。2020年、ニューヨークにある古い教会でレコーディングされた作品とのことです。

While Ian Felice is a real person, the persona hes fashioned over the course of the Felice Brothers recording career seems to have strolled out of a novel set in the Deep South in the early years of the 20th century, where his character is a boozy yet personable self-styled philosopher never at a loss for some lopsided wisdom on lifes passing parade. Ians character seemed to be wrestling with the precarious balance of breezy wit and the obstacles of living in America in 2019 on the Felice Brothers Undress, and hes still figuring out the proportions on 2021s From Dreams to Dust. However, From Dreams to Dust feels more comfortable and confident in the belief that were living in a difficult time and must acknowledge the gravity of the moment, even if we cant help but snicker about it every once in a while. Though mounting a soapbox is a relatively new concept for Felice, you wouldnt know it from listening to From Dreams to Dust. These songs are full of a wobbly confidence that puts a tight focus on the personal and political, lashing out at a world of waste and injustice (To-Do List, Money Talks) while Felice wavers between a playful appreciation of his own eccentricity (Jazz on the Autobahn) and a less charitable observer who has something timely and eloquent to say. The bands ragged but right grooves are in especially good shape this time out: Ians vocals and guitar hit a deft sweet spot between thoughtful and surreal, and his multi-instrumentalist brother James Felice and the rhythm section of bassist Jesske Hume and drummer Will Lawrence have taken the notion of loosely tight and given it flesh, lending their indie folk melodies a framework that has just enough give but never falls over. Its anyones guess what manner of global calamity will greet the Felice Brothers the next time they go into the recording studio, but if From Dreams to Dust gives us anything to go by, theyll approach it with wisdom and heart, two qualities this album has in healthy quantities. ~ Mark Deming