Album Reviews
Voices
7.5
Once upon a time (about five years ago), two bands came together as one and released an EP on which everyone collaborated. Those two bands were The Casket Lottery and Small Brown Bike. Now those two bands have umm… come together as one even more and formed Able Baker Fox. The line-up consists of Nathan Ellis (The Casket Lottery, Coalesce) and Mike Reed, Ben Reed and Jeff Gensterblum, all three of them formerly of Small Brown Bike.
Expect loads of jangly guitars and a solid vocal tradeoff between Reed and Ellis. Both bands had a very distinctive sound and somehow Able Baker Fox manages to come up with something different but which at the same time is reminiscent of both their former outfits.
From opener “October” to the closing track - and album highlight - “Whispering”, the band cranks out one solid melodic yet edgy song after the other, making “Voices” an album that stands on its own two feet and doesn’t really need the ‘featuring former members of…’ introduction.
Tom Dumarey
Lacking the talent to actually play in a band, Tom decided he would write about bands instead. Turns out his writing skills are mediocre at best as well.
