Altered Buffalo – Altered Buffalo

 

 

Altered Buffalo – Altered Buffalo
Off The Record – 2022
Rock, Folk, Americana, Psych, Country
Rated: ****

Something different today. But by someone we dig and mentioned quite a few times! I mean, we’ve been following all that Tjeerd De Jong has done in the passed and will continue to follow him for all his future project. We love his work with Stone In Egypt, Doomsday BC, Phantom Druid and Demon Lodge. Currently he’s got a new project going called Horsepower O.D. but back in April he released a self-titled album by another one of his projects called Altered Buffalo. A duo he formed with René van den Belt, who you might know from acts such as True Grit, Black Flowers and Not Dark Yet. All americana, roots and folk-rock outfits. Combine the two and you would expect a dark folk, americana doom album perhaps? But no, they’ve kept it folk and completely americana. Well, with some more country rock approaches and a few psychedelic influences. Darker moments are sparse, but perhaps the end of the lovely You Were The One can be seen as noir. But the ten tracks are mostly here to celebrate the song; and show off the abilities of both players. Sometimes it feels like they’re here to pay homage to Neil Young at other times Gram Parsons seems to have been the biggest inspiration. But at all times, the love for the song, the light melancholy and the melancholy light shines through. Traditional songs that work best when the vocal harmonies twirl and circle each other; when the music feels as fragile as that vague little ray of sunlight that breaks through the clouds…  

(Written by JK)

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