Norfolk’s (and that’s Norfolk UK folks!) happening Brown Horse will release their second album ‘All The Right Weaknesses” which acts as a second volume of their sprawling fuzzy Americana from the cosmic and rocking end of the spectrum. How can we be so confident – well, we’ve listened to the single ‘Dog Rose’ – and you can do the same right now and be similarly won over. Or you could pause a moment and read what songwriter Emma Tovell has to say about the song: “I quit my job a few years ago and drove the rusty old band van to Spain. I hadn’t had the opportunity to see different places much so it was a huge deal for me. Some of the lyrics to ‘Dog Rose’ were written in the van on the drive down, at campsites and on roadsides, but I wrote most of them one night in a bar in Granada. It’s a questioning, reminiscing kind of song, but not necessarily in a good way. It feels restless, disquieting. There’s death, sex, the past, desire and disappointment, which together form this desperate sprawl of thoughts and feelings. It’s the only song on ‘All the Right Weaknesses’ that clung on to the wailing lap steel present across our first album. The lap steel has a specific, haunted quality, and in this way, Dog Rose acts as a bit of bridge between the first and second albums. At the time I was listening to a bunch of Purple Mountains, Lucinda Williams, Jason Molina, Big Thief, Cat Power, Wilco and Friends.”
