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Review: 'Browlin'
'To the Border!'   

-  Album: 'To the Border!' -  Label: 'Rife Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '26th August 2016'

Our Rating:
Big-name radio DJs are all over Browlin’s unusual hybrid of Wild West and Indie Funk, with Lauren Laverne declaring that it gets better with every listen and Huw Stephens and Stewart Maconie both saying that they’re loving it. He’s been mentioned alongside his peer Mark Ronson and celebrated for his ‘genre-breaking’ style and ‘pioneering production,’ not least of all for his previous work with Fatboy Slim while still working as Oliver Smith.

It may be intelligent and well-produced, but throwing together the trappings of Ennio Morriocone, Johnny Cash and Hot Chip isn’t really what the world needs.’Pieces’ sounds like a Crash Test Dummies B-side, and while ‘All My Days’ finds Browlin give a gutsy, full-throated vocal performance, there’s something ersatz about the use of well-worn country and Latin tropes.

The shuffling beats and electronic interventions simply don’t sit comfortably, and the overall feel is less of ‘rhythmic emotion’ or a work that’s ‘captivatingly personal’ and more of a hipsterish novelty record.

Browlin Online

  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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Browlin - To the Border!