{"id":16784,"date":"2021-10-07T05:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16784"},"modified":"2021-10-06T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T11:44:46","slug":"the-brothers-steve-dose-big-stir-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=16784","title":{"rendered":"The Brothers Steve \u2013 \u2018Dose\u2019 (Big Stir Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Seasonal affective disorder kicking in with the onset of Autumn, the icy tendrils of Winter seemingly just another dark cloud away? Scorch those bad weather blues away with a ten-track sunburst in audio form that goes by the title, \u2018Dose\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Yes, \u2018Dose\u2019, the second album from The Brothers Steve, follows the L.A. band\u2019s well-received 2019 debut and is guaranteed to put a smile on even the gloomiest of faces; you\u2019ll feel like you\u2019re in the audience for a taping of Rowan & Martin\u2019s Laugh-In given the day-glo, power pop Summer love-in that pours out of this sugarbomb of a sophomore release.<\/p>\n

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That \u2018Dose\u2019 (available on CD and digital platforms this month) is such a great album should come as no surprise if you know anything about the band\u2019s members and power punk pop pedigree. Singer\/guitarist Jeff Whalen, drummer Steve Coulter, and bassist Jeff Solomon were members of Tsar, the glorious Los Angeles glam power pop crew who released two fabulous Noughties albums; the essential 2000 debut, \u2018Calling All Destroyers\u2019, hook-laden manna from harmony heaven that kept those of us allergic to Cookie Monster vocals and tracksuits-as-stagewear afloat as the new century dawned and threatened to musically yawn. Alongside singer\/guitarist OS Tyler and guitarist Dylan Champion (Shapes Of Race Cars), this trio has fashioned a laidback, lo-fi winner of an album that will, for a short time at least, make everything seem alright.<\/p>\n

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If you love songs that sound like either the title- or closing-credits-song from a five-decade-old cult television show, then \u2018Dose\u2019 is the album for you. This is Summertime power pop floating on a psychedelic breeze; an exercise in retro righteousness that has a Chelsea boot in the Sixties, a platform heel in the Seventies, and is both British Invasion- and American garage rock-influenced: the album a true audio thrift store.<\/p>\n

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Opener \u2018Get On Up\u2019 is the alterno-reality theme tune to your favourite Seventies kids\u2019 television show, second track, \u2018Next Aquarius\u2019, a dreamy, effortless tune that makes you realise that all bands could sound this fantastic if only the cool kids were allowed to make records. And that\u2019s how \u2018Dose\u2019 plays out: lilting and ageless power pop that\u2019ll make you want to dig out your Banana Splits shirt and Seventies seven-inch collection fused to late Sixties psychedelic pop that\u2019ll make you want that childhood bowl haircut back.<\/p>\n

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\u2018Wizard Of Love\u2019 and \u2018Better Get Ready\u2019 sound like they should have a vintage Top Of The Pops clips (drummer at the front, roadies doing synchronised dance moves) accompanying them, while gorgeous tunes like \u2018Mrs. Rosenbaum\u2019, \u2018Love Of Kings\u2019, and \u2018She Will Wait\u2019 will take you back a decade further with some aplomb. There are still hooks aplenty \u2013 the superb \u2018Sugarfoot\u2019 for example \u2013 and those wanting a touch of that Tsar magic will have to look no further than the most excellent \u2018Electro-Love\u2019.<\/p>\n

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That old Catholic guilt may come into play when you realise that, as people die all around us at the start of this new decade, our auditory canals have been gifted bands like The Brothers Steve and The Lickerish Quartet but, c\u2019mon, we all know that life has teeth so surely it\u2019s better to bare those gnashers in a shit-eating music-induced grin than in anger? A (wait for it) \u2018Dose\u2019 of this musical medicine will make everything taste sweeter, guaranteed. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Author: Gaz Tidey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seasonal affective disorder kicking in with the onset of Autumn, the icy tendrils of Winter seemingly just another dark cloud away? Scorch those bad weather blues away with a ten-track sunburst in audio form that goes by the title, \u2018Dose\u2019.   Yes, \u2018Dose\u2019, the second album from The Brothers Steve, follows the L.A. band\u2019s well-received […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5958,7190,2113],"class_list":["post-16784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-big-stir-records","tag-brothers-steve","tag-gaz-tidey","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16790,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784\/revisions\/16790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}