Brothers Osborne have delivered what Rolling Stone describes as “a pleasant stability of tough and easy” on their new, self-titled, fourth studio album, newly accessible on EMI Information Nashville.
The brand new set is the brothers’ first with producer Mike Elizondo (Keith City, Turnstile, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow) after three albums with Jay Joyce, the studio presence who John and TJ say “helped make us what we’re at the moment.” For the brand new mission, the duo gave Elizondo the liberty to curate his personal band of studio musicians, together with Paul McCartney’s drummer Abe Laboriel Jr.
The album’s lead-off monitor “Who Says You Can’t Have All the pieces” was co-written by the brothers with Casey Beathard, and has TJ singing “Received the one I really like, blue sky above, grass rising beneath my toes.” John and TJ co-wrote each tune on the file.
“We made a aware determination very early on to make a tough flip into territories the place we’ve by no means been earlier than,” says John Osborne. “Mike Elizondo is an avid instrument collector, particularly of guitar pedals and synthesizers, and we wished to include that. The tune that bridges the hole between this album and our final is ‘Youthful Me,’ which was very synth heavy. That’s the tie that binds Skeletons and the brand new album.”
Provides TJ: “This file has the widest spectrum of music we’ve ever finished, but it surely’s additionally oddly lasered in on what it’s that we do. You’ll be able to actually hear John and me and the traits that make us Brothers Osborne greater than ever earlier than.”
The album is the group’s first since TJ Osborne got here out as homosexual and John revealed psychological well being points. John informed Billboard: “It’s a brand new begin in that we’re attempting new issues, attempting new sounds — but it surely’s additionally a late begin that between recording our final album, my brother and I’ve disclosed numerous private issues. I really feel prefer it gave us the braveness to lean additional into ourselves and never play it protected.”
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