If you had only heard City and Colour’s debut album, you could almost be forgiven for presuming that listening to too much of the new album would send you into an irreversible melancholic emotional daze. Your life would be filled with heartache and sorrow, bookended with beautiful prose and wistful metaphor. You would be completely misunderstood and looked down upon by a far too narrow-minded society. You would want to get impromptu tattoos on your neck and walk through town with your hood up claiming that no-one understands you or what your music means to you.
Ah, the classic teenage guise; Dallas Green’s Bring Me Your Love is the perfect soundtrack for such a state of mind. However, there may be a little more under the bonnet of this beat up Cadillac than just offshoot Emo acoustic songs to feel sorry for yourself to. Since embarking on his solo journey, City and Colour’s Dallas Green seems to have matured; Bring Me Your Love is a far-cry from 2005’s two-dimensional debut album Sometimes.
The songs still portray the same troubled and heartbroken man we have met before, but there is something different here. Something which was lurking in the shadows before has now come into the light and shown its face. That something is fantastic songs. Now, coupled with one of the most beautiful male voices of a generation, this gives us one heck of an album. Interweaving harmonies and luscious guitar melodies sprinkle this album with a consummate sheen of dynamic that was much needed and missing before. Standout tracks Confessions, Waiting, The Girl, and As Much as I Ever Could make this album stand tall in a room full of people on their knees. A classic in the making, this one’s a keeper. Now where’s my hoodie…?
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