"Dance WIth Me" has a propulsive drive backed by soaring guitar lines, as Miller spits out his declarations: "Underneath the foreign stars / In a foreign place where they don’t love you – I do care." "The Color of A Lonely Heart Is Blue," sung by bass guitar player Murray Hammond, is the kind of song you can imagine being played at the campfire at sunset.
Gravity is a return to form for the band, with empathetic rock anthems waiting around every corner such as "The Fool," "Ride," and "I Will Remain." While country is the flavor, there's welcome and varied influences. The distorted fuzz-guitar of "Early Morning" sounds like Sonic Youth meets Merle Haggard, while "She Loves The Sunset" has an island-reverie swoon to it. "My Two Feet" is jangle-pop straight out of the Byrds/Beatles handbook. There's a confidence in their material that shows the hiatus has done them good. They've staked out a niche and are at home in it, and lord knows you never can have too many love songs.
For longtime fans, Blame It On Gravity is like a note from an old friend. For newcomers, it isn't a bad place to start at all. It's cowboy poetry that rides smooth the whole way down the trail.
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Article comments
1 - Tiffany Leigh
The woman you refer to lyrically off WRECK YOUR LIFE is actually "Victoria," not Doreen.