Big Sugar - Brothers & Sisters, Are You Ready

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 49:43
Size: 113.8 MB
Styles: Rock, Electric blues
Year: 2001
Art: Front

[4:57] 1. Red Rover
[3:47] 2. Nashville Grass
[4:04] 3. She Left Ashes
[4:02] 4. Nicotina (She's All That)
[3:32] 5. So Not Over
[4:06] 6. Butterball
[4:11] 7. Bump On The Head
[3:53] 8. Lost And Found
[3:35] 9. Bad Old Days
[4:10] 10. We Could Live
[3:12] 11. Pretty Bird
[3:54] 12. All Hell For A Basement
[2:15] 13. O Canada

Having benefited both from Gordie Johnson's tinkerings with dub side project Alkaline and the acquisition of additional riddim guitarist Mojah, Big Sugar veers into a distinctly more esoteric direction on this, their fifth outing. As with 1998's Heated, Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready? is loaded with a batch of dependable high-octane rock crunchers (particularly album opener "Red Rover," lead single "Nicotina," and "All Hell for a Basement") and some passable exercises in rock-dub fusion (both "Nashville Grass" and the chirruping "Pretty Bird" coast along on reggae-informed guitar lines). Unfortunately, it's not always enough to disguise Johnson's obvious creative lull; too many of the songs plod along aimlessly for this to rank among the band's finer moments. A consolation note: the inclusion of an amped-up "O Canada" and the coinciding release of Brothers and Sisters Êtes Vous Ready? (which marks the first time an English-speaking Canadian band has ever simultaneously released an album in English and French) will forever ensure that Big Sugar has a spot in the annals of Canadian music history. ~Mark Pytlik

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