Horrible Crowes' Elsie: Brian Fallon's love letter to your ears

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Brian Fallon, the gravelly-voiced lead singer of The Gaslight Anthem, has taken a side road from may favourite Jersey band to form The Horrible Crowes with his friend and guitar tech, Ian Perkins. Let me tell ya - Fallon could be singing personal insults about my mother, and I'd probably still buy his record.

Sideonedummy Records, which is releasing The Horrible Crowes debut album, Elsie says

The band is Brian Fallon's lounge-friendly tip of the hat to artist like Tom Waits, The Afghan Whigs and PJ Harvey that have shaped another side of his musical taste.

With the same lead singer, there's obviously a modicum of similarity between the two bands, but where The Gaslight Anthem came in, spun you in circles around the dance floor and then swept you off your feet with its forthright and fierce rock tunes, The Horrible Crowes woos you slowly with sexy sidelong glances and eventually wins you over with its subtlety and intimacy.

Funnily enough, the song on the album that sounds most like The Gaslight Anthem is the lead single, "Behold The Hurricane". But even then, it's reminiscent of the much mellower songs we've heard from TGA before, and has a melodic sound more like that of U2 or Coldplay.


God, I hope he never stops singing.

'Fallon could be singing insults about my mother...'

great line