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[CRAZY-HORSE]

BAND OF HORSES "mirage rock" cd,2012.

after a week of old albums(60s and 70s mostly) i thought should deliberately pick out something newish,the only one i knew was newish and where it was, was this one, the newly released Band Of Horses one...
man, i love these guys, i only have two of their four albums,this one and infinate arms, loved that one, this one is borderline love already,after only two or three listens...
yeh, its new, but it still has the feel of old rock and roll to me, can hear bits of CCR,Neil Young,Eagles,Stones,CS&N, Buffalo Springfield here...not surprising really as these guys were influenced innitially by Neil Young(thus their name, a take on Crazy Horse).
lots of lovely harmonies and melodies on here, very radio friendly compared to their last album, im still not too keen on the first single 'knock,knock', but its still ok in the scheme of things...favoruite track here is the beautiful acoustic 'long vows'...so much like Neil Young's acoustic material its scary, almost doing NY better than NY(or jimmy fallon LOL)...
all-up, very very good album that should really break these guys into mainstream rock and get lots and lots of airplay with these tracks.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

worst track: heartbreak on the 101
best track: long vows

tracks:

1. knock knock **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_FKnnhum5s live
2. how to live ***
3. slow cruel hands of time ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYMaz4cIBeA audio
4. a little biblical **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5E7uzKyA8s audio
5. shut-in-tourist **
6. dumpster world **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTwOfavsabo audio
7. electric music **
8. everything's gonna be undone **
9. fued **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSy5BgP2pAU audio
10.long vows ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NCY2_UtVPE audio
11.heartbreak on the 101 **

3s=3
2s=8
1s=0

rating: 2.3