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The Weight Of Waiting
The Brook Lee Catastrophe
"The Band" meets "Wilco"-Folk Rock music with a modern edge. This quintet is known for they're song craftmanship and amazing live shows.
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A Mountain Of Little Things | 3:01 | Play |
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Down | 3:06 | Play |
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Everybody's Asking | 3:36 | Play |
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Compressed Black Carbon & A Digital Divide | 4:04 | Play |
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Constellations (I) | 1:52 | Play |
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Constellations (II) | 3:17 | Play |
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Big Nothing | 2:03 | Play |
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A Devils Truth | 4:50 | Play |
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Ambulance | 2:54 | Play |
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She's An Anchor | 5:34 | Play |
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You Shine A Light | 3:20 | Play |
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Description
Over the past two years The Brook Lee Catastrophe has built a steady and enthusiastic following with a sound that is at once lush and intimate. Anchored by the classic folk-rock lyricism of veteran Southern California singer/songwriter Brook Lee, the Catastrophe violinist Paul Mitchell, guitarist George Madrid, bassist Ryan Nakata, and drummer Mike Duncan- paints a musical landscape that counterpoints and enhances Lees words, filling in the picture with instrumental brushstrokes that merge the traditional with the experimental.
As the second full-length album released in under a year, The Weight of Waiting finds the band delving deeper into their established sound and mining previously untapped influences. The album emerged fully formed after 5 days with producer Rick Parker whose extensive credits include The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Dandy Warhols, & Miranda Lee Richards to name a few. The resulting tracks capture the vitality of a band deeply immersed in a process of musical exploration and self-discovery.
The fruits of this exploration can be heard in songs like Compressed Black Carbon & A Digital Divide, in which the almost spoken poetry of the lyrics recede into the abstract musical poetry of the songs second half. Everybodys Asking makes a crafty move into pop territory, counter pointing Lees downbeat lyrics with a musical confection evoking Elvis Costello and Van Morrison.
At the center of the album, the spare and meditative Constellations I coils its ruminations like a spring finally bursting forth into the striving anthem-like Constellations II. Elsewhere, A Devils Truth offers an upbeat tale of a deadbeat dad in a country-and-western key, and Lee steps back to his solo acoustic roots for Big Nothing, a two-minute character sketch thats as incisive as it is concise.
At the heart of The Brook Lee Catastrophes music is a voice that speaks the truth to sorrow and articulates an idealism that persists beyond youthful naivet a realists idealism, one that refuses to be corroded by lifes slings and arrows, redoubling its conviction as it stands defiant against a sea of troubles.