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Sam Roberts, "Brother Down," We Were Born in a Flame.(Brief Article)(Sound Recording Review)
Sam Roberts, "Brother Down," We Were Born in a Flame (Universal)
This is more like it! Canadian rocker Roberts serves up a huge, meaty platter of sinewy musicianship in the service of a formative poetic voice. We Were Born in a Flame churns out one original tune after another, music at once dense and layered while at the same time propelled with a simplicity of purpose. I'm not going to dwell too very much on the lyrics: heartfelt, elephantine, and veering ever so closely to unvarnished cliche ("The air tonight is rarefied/It's all I need, the air I breathe/You're burning all my bridges baby/Set your sights ...
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