[bluegrass] (2025) The Unfaithful Servants - Fallen Angel [FLAC] [DarkAngie]

Review:
Fallen Angel, The Unfaithful Servants’ second full-length release, serves up a splendid sampling of the Vancouver Island-based quartet’s distinctive take on contemporary Americana. Call it newgrass, if you will, which necessarily entails a predominant bluegrass component augmented by lots of swing, tricky time changes, nicely woven melodic lines and the occasional hint of rock/pop in the mix. The Canadian band’s line-up of uber-talented whippersnappers consists of mandolinist Jesse Cobb (founding member of The Infamous Stringdusters), singer-songwriter-guitarist Dylan Stone, fiddle virtuoso Quin Etheridge-Pedden and bassist Mark Johnson. ‘Endless Highway’ sets the stage for the remaining tracks with its classic bluegrass framework, lovely solos, catchy melody, fine harmony vocals and tightly concentrated energy. ‘The Grass is Always Bluer’ stomps on the jazz accelerator, with Stone and Johnson providing Cobb and Etheridge-Pedden with exceptionally fine rhythmic support. The album’s closer, ‘Buried in the Snow’, is a stone-cold creepy murder ballad. — songlines.co.uk



Track List:
01 - Endless Highway
02 - Never Leave You Again
03 - The Grass Is Always Bluer
04 - Real to Touch
05 - Fallen Angel
06 - Adeline
07 - The River
08 - Big Shots
09 - Negativity
10 - More Than Lovers
11 - Buried in the Snow
Media Report:
Genre: bluegrass
Origin: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)
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