Thebrotheregg
is a rock ‘n roll band from Portland, Oregon. Soaked in virility and freedom, thebrotheregg blasts out
great songs, one after the other.
It’s fun to think of thebrotheregg music as a kind of skate rock with
both ugly faces and pretty faces.
Portland is a rainy place most of the time, and this band rises above
it, turning grey into a color blast, joyful and triumphant. Don’t be alarmed if you hear a song
like “Murky up the Lagoon” and you think it’s like this Velvet Undergroundie
type thing with all these string parts and sweet sounds, and then you see one
of thebrotheregg live shows and it’s all screaming and yelling and pacing back
and forth. They’ve gone through
phases.
Additionally,
if you’re wondering about this back catalogue of records by thebrothergg, I
urge you to consider that those records are pretty different from the band
now. “Snowflake and Fingerprint
Machine” and “Aortica Mor”, both which occurred between 2000 and 2005 or so,
are experiments with quite excellent results. Possibly baroque pop at times, possibly a dark twee,
thebrotheregg explored and these were the results. These are unknown classics
of our time!
The
record with all the bugs on it and everything current is the new thing, the new
sound. The group has gone more
live and loud. It’s a more
aggressive stage show, a more confrontational blast. The guitar
sound is alive and glaring back at you from the future. This fair and balanced journalism
does not lie. thebrotheregg is
cool: Check it out.
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