SONS OF BILL @ THE RUBY LOUNGE

“This is a record that takes me back to some of the creative heights we achieved in Wilco,” says producer Ken Coomer about Sons of Bill’s latest LP Love and Logic. “I’m only interested in making records that are still going to be relevant ten years from now, & this is one of them. It’s unmistakably the real thing.”

It’s easy to say that Sons of Bill can sound more like Townes Van Zandt or early R.E.M. depending on the track, even moving into their own brand of down-home psychedelia that American Songwriter described as a “countrified Pink Floyd.” But the real achievement of Love and Logic is the songwriting, the Wilson brothers’ ability to craft literate & deeply introspective lyrics while still managing to deliver it all as a rock and & band. It’s a soul-searcher’s soundtrack for an over-stimulated age. A roots rock album that stands out in 2014. Love & Logic certainly marks a turning point for the band– a more sober, reflective, version of themselves– the sound of a band coming into its own.

What makes Sons of Bill so great is their ability to be so unabashedly at home with themselves in a time when some roots bands feel like they are trying a little bit too hard, & rock & roll bands are starting to feel desperately over-conceptualized. Maybe that’s part of playing music with your brothers: No point in faking it.

+ WALTON HESSE

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