City And Colour

Bring Me Your Love is the sophomore album by one-man-band Dallas Green. I’m not going to lie: this CD is a little antithetical to the rest of the content of PureGrainAudio.com, so if you don’t like anything other than hardcore metal you should probably stop reading this review right now. However, for the adventurous ones…

Bring Me Your Love takes City and Colour into a more folksy direction, incorporating harmonica, drums, and banjo—as opposed to just acoustic guitar and piano. The harmonica additions are a bit of a misstep because they give the record a sort of Bob Dylan vibe, and Green is no Dylan. I’m not sure if the inclusion of more instruments was the best thing to do here; they give the album more variety, but sometimes they muddle up songs that would have worked better stripped down.

Though Dallas Green has probably one of the best voices in music today, Bring Me Your Love’s songs tend to blend together at times. The problem with City and Colour is that the songs have the same type of sound, and sometimes go on too long. This was the main problem in Sometimes and is not overcome in Bring Me Your Love, even with more dynamic instrumentation.

This is a good record to fall asleep to, which is not an insult; the songs are in no way boring. Bring Me Your Love is just more appropriate as soothing background music, rather than something to, say, jog to.

The verdict? Bring Me Your Love is definitely worth looking into, but avoid it if singer/songwriters aren’t your thing.  [ END ]

Track Listing:

01. Forgive Me
02. Confessions
03. The Death Of Me
04. Body In A Box
05. Sleeping Sickness
06. What Makes A Man?
07. Waiting…
08. Constant Knot
09. Against The Grain
10. The Girl
11. Sensible Heart
12. As Much As I Ever Could

Run Time: 42:54