What the Brothers Sang - Bonnie "Prince" Billy
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  • Summary: Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie "Prince" Billy collaborated on this tribute release of songs by The Everly Brothers.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. Feb 19, 2013
    90
    There's a warmth and life in these songs that goes beyond tribute or reenactment.
  2. This is heartfelt, sweetly sincere and as good an album as BPB has made for some time.
  3. Feb 19, 2013
    80
    Not surprisingly, it's the less propulsive numbers that truly resonate on What the Brothers Sang, as Oldham and McCarthy sound less emotionally constricted at a more measured pace, and when they allow their muses to meet, as they do on highlights like "Breakdown," "What Am I Loving For," and the beautiful closer "Kentucky," the results are transcendent.
  4. 60
    The album is more a loving revival than a modernization of some of the Everly Brothers’ lesser-known songs. But when the duo’s influence can still be heard trickling into everything from Fleet Foxes to Animal Collective, it’s hard to claim that What the Brothers Sang does much more than reminisce.

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