Back with another cool slice of rootsy, acoustic rock, Ms Mystery, like pretty much everything that Alias Wayne does, is hard to pin down generically. Wandering between folky restraint and rock muscle, southern cool and soulful sophistication, it’s a restless and remarkable song. But who needs genres? They only hold things back.
Thankfully, Alias Wayne has always been open to such notions, drawing on all manner of sounds and styles to create his own broad and adventurous sonic signature. And here, that is evident. Wandering rootsy roads and soulful byways, blending melody and muscle, raw edges with smooth harmonies, it is a song that once again proves that you can use the tried and tested genres and styles as building blocks, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t put them together in new ways to build glorious new sonic architecture. Or put another way, it ain’t what you do; it’s how you do it.
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