Intelligent Offering
Here’s another fine freebie [or leave a tip] from
NoiseTrade, but as it is a promo for the imminent full release of Caroline Rose’s
debut album I Will Not Be Afraid, I
think receiving it in the gesture it is offered is good enough. I will further
that gesture by recommending it here: there’s rockabilly folk in the title
track, and some taut rock cleverness in the excellent At Midnight where you keep waiting for the tension in the clipped
guitar riffs to explode, but it never quite does so: the expectation adding to
the gritty atmosphere. Opener Blood On Your
Bootheels on this 7 track sampler from the 11 on the full release deals
poignantly with the relatively recent Trayvon Martin killing, and by
extrapolation with more recent events in Ferguson. This is an intelligent album
musically and lyrically.
You can download from here.
