 Another Castle reimagines rock music. Don’t get the wrong impression – Danny keeps his bass amp turned right up, Leo hits the drums as viciously as anyone, Pat’s guitar can barely stay in tune for how hard he attacks the strings, and the singing shows the kind of rock’n'roll vocal stamina built by years of practise and sore throats. But Josh Wayman’s organ and piano sounds hark back a couple of decades to when keyboards actually ROCKED, those rock’n'roll voices are able to blend and soften into two- or three-part harmonies, and Brendan’s accordion – sometimes pretty, sometimes grating and harsh – is as important a part of the band’s sonic identity as any of the traditional “rock” instruments. |
