The Urban Chiefs – Rise Above
When listening to The Urban Chiefs, there is an immediate sense of being off-kilter thanks to the ambient steel guitar. It evokes a strong image of rolling through the dreamlike desert cover art of their album Rise Above.
The pace changes between songs, speeding into a magical mix that is part funk & part country. It drops to a bare instrumental and then brings back an ambience, pulling in and out like a longed for distant tide.
The work of The Urban chiefs and their collaborators pays off in Rise Above, melding warmly into a well-rounded album. Brave the desert and saunter on in. (SP)
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