Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

From Dylan going electric to Gaga going jazz, there's always extra interest when an artist changes not just direction but dimension. On first listen, The Felice Brothers ' latest record comes from somewhere left of left field. Before Celebration, Florida , the band were best known for jaunty country stylings like 'Frankie's Gun' and shuffling, shambling ballads. However, even their more experimental cuts cannot quite prepare you for the extraordinary outburst of shouty hip pop chorus that graces 'Fire at the Pageant', a terrific, explosive, junkyard-meets-playground dead-man-walking rumpus; hustling, flustering and abrupt. [...]