'Trunks' of empty songs from Brothers Creeggan
By Trond M. Vagen
Daily Forty-Niner
After five years of silence, the Canadian
band Brothers Creeggan have re-emerged from the darkness they were hiding
in to release their third album "Trunks."
"Trunks" is an album entirely stripped
of any means of exciting the listener, it is dull to the core and rather
uninspiring.
The band comprises Andy and Jim Creeggan,
the latter also being the bass player in the Barenaked Ladies. Andy was
also a member of the Ladies, but left in 1995 to pursue a solo career.
The album features Ian McLauchlan on drums
and a host of lesser-known artists filling in, mostly on accordions. In
between Jim's touring with the Barenaked Ladies and Andy's demanding solo
career they gathered to work on the album as a side project.
The album's 11 songs are all acoustic,
with guitar and double bass being the most common instruments.
The second track, "Fondly yours," has the
air of a cocktail lounge, but it doesn't live up to its pretenses and fails
to deliver. "John's in the fridge," the third track, has a funky bass line
and a jazzy blend of tones and is not nearly as bad as other songs on the
album.
"Goin' to the forest" is the most promising
song on the album, with a funky rhythm resembling something from the Red
Hot Chili Peppers' camp. The song makes good use of the double bass and
Tom Allen's trombone playing helps this song carry the album out of the
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