Bonnie "Prince" Billy & The Cairo Gang

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4...according to our Clinton on Fri 25 Feb, 2011.

Seemingly impervious to criticism despite regularly sounding like a Bob Seger B side, Bonnie Prince Billy unleashes another slab of his classic rock on my aching ears. The first few minutes is your regular countrified stagger with choral vocals, Neil Young's guitar sound and Jools Holland's piano trills which takes an abrupt left turn half way through into a melancholic almost Talk Talk style coda which despite nearby hollers of 'Midnight Caller' was generally pretty affecting. The B side is a nice piece of soulful country in your Lambchop vein. Again rather affecting. All proceeds for the sale of this goes to helping people in Haita, not as Dave misheard, helping people in the '80's. That will be the new Human League single - all proceeds of that will go towards helping to rescue people stuck in the '80s.

“Island Brothers” b/w “New Wonder,” is the new single from Bonnie

'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang. The plan is for as much of the profits as possible from the sales of this single to be given to a Louisville-based organization called EDGE Outreach . For this single, the songs were performed by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy & The Cairo Gang with Ben Boye ,
Van Campbell, Danny Kiely and Angel Olsen, who toured in the latter half of 2010 with Bonny & Cairo. Special guest
Rob Mazurek (whose work brought air and light to Bonny’s
Beware) solos delicate on “Island
Brothers,” which features stacked harmonies from Bonny, Cairo and Angel. The careful arrangement of dynamics that marked all the songs on The Wonder Show Of The World
is present on both songs, with “New Wonder,” more indicative of the ballad style that was explored throughout that album.

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