The Bread and the Bait
Album | Foxtails Brigade
Arch, elegant chamber pop.
The term "chamber pop" gets thrown around pretty freely, but it's easy to imagine the sounds of Foxtails Brigade actually filling the air of some art patron's intimate salon. There's little more occupying The Bread and the Bait than Laura Weinbach's voice and nylon-string guitar and Anton Patzner's violin, and all three weave in and out of each other's paths like partners in a particularly elegant dance. And while the quirky melodic swoops and turns of songwriter Weinbach's vocals are likely to find sympathetic ears among admirers of Josephine Foster, Marissa Nadler, et al, no one is likely to label these tunes as "freak folk" - they're far too artful and carefully constructed to fall under such a freewheeling umbrella. At times it's like the spirit of "Eleanor Rigby" or Zombies frontman Colin Blunstone's cult-classic 1971 solo album One Year has been transferred to present-day California, but the way Weinbach's songs flow from winningly winsome melodic statements to more arch, angular modes and back again, there's no denying the very distinctive musical identity of The Bread and the Bait.
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