Any band who learned their chops playing covers of songs by such iconic and well-chosen artists, everyone from Otis Redding to Talking Heads, is going to be a band that understands how music works. After all, just knocking out another poor rendition of Johnny B. Goode or Free Bird does the world few favours. Proof of such a musical learning curve is clearly audible on the new album by The Bankes Brothers.
In Waves offers six of the best, from the changing time signatures of the titular opener to the gorgeously up-and-at-’em pop-rock of Things I’ll Never Learn to the seductive and slower paced See Me Run.
Pop might be often underwhelming, rock resorts to cliche, indie far too full of itself. But put them all together as deftly as The Bankes Brothers do, and the result is something that really brings out the best in all of those genres.
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