Little Hell

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Total Tracks: 11   Total Length: 47:14

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Andrew Mueller

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12.21.11
City and Colour, Little Hell
2011 | Label: Vagrant Records (US)

City & Colour, a side project of ex-Alexisonfire songwriter Dallas Green, is beginning to resemble a career in its own right. Little Hell is the third album to have appeared under the City & Colour flag of convenience and is a notably restless work, exhibiting Green’s affection for Neil Young-heavy rock ‘n’ roll (“Weightless”, “Natural Disaster”) alongside the sort of flighty acoustic ballads that give his tremulous, Jeff Buckley-ish voice space to soar (“Northern Wind”, “O’Sister”). Best of all is his splitting of that difference on opening track “We Found Each Other in the Dark,” a lapsteel-laced wonder that recalls Drive-By Truckers at their more stately.

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On Bring Me Your Love, the third outing from City and Colour, Dallas Green laments, pines, and celebrates loves both won and lost, employing a dusky, electrified patina of old and new country with a tinge of soul that’s miles (sonically) from his work with the post-hardcore outfit Alexisonfire. Equal parts Whiskeytown, the Low Anthem, and Jeff Buckley, the album is built on a foundation of melancholy, but never falls into complete despair. Steeped in the abyss of late-night introspection, Green has the voice to carry the weight of his protagonists, whether it’s a sibling’s descent into darkness (“O Sister”) or the glimmer of hope amongst the ruins of past relationships (“We Found Each Other in the Dark”), and the songs’ lush yet deceptively simple arrangements allow his words the room to resonate. – James Christopher Monger

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