Strange Bird:Augie March

Title: Strange Bird

Label: spinART

Genre: amazing indie-folk

Rating: 7 of 7

While living in America, you sometimes think that you are in the center of the world; and that, especially in the music industry, everything worth knowing will naturally come to the U.S. and have an impact. Well, Melbourne’s Augie March is direct proof that this is not true. Initially released during 2002 in Australia, Strange Bird did quite well in its home country, but for some reason, never reached the manipulated and jaded ears of the American listener (at least not mine). Lying somewhere between Bright Eyes and the Beatles, or Brian Wilson and the Flaming Lips, this album is 14 tracks of beautiful and inspiring folk tales that are as well written lyrically as musically. Singer-Guitarist Glenn Richards’ elegant prose dances delicately on top of chiming, folk-tinged guitars, swirling brass, and mellow piano lines that sound like they were recorded 40 years ago on an original, vintage sound board. Every song is amazing so take your choice, whether it is the raucous gallop of This Train, #2, the heart-breaking Little Wonder, #3, the heavy chants of Song in the Key of Chance, #6, or the climactic Brundisium, #13. This is unaltered musical bliss that is what indie rock strives to accomplish with every release.

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