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Kevin Devine is a Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter. Between June 2006 and December 2008 he played over 600 shows with everyone from Katy Perry to The Offspring to Okkervil River, he’s released four albums, been through a major label break-up and had an incredible time along the way. Now, with ‘Brother’s Blood’, album number five – and his first in the UK – looming on the horizon, it’s time for a new chapter in this exciting young career.
‘Brother’s Blood’ is an eclectic collection of 11 songs, originally written acoustically by Kevin and later re-tweeked, restructured and recorded in Williamsburg, NY, with help from long-time friends and collaborators, The Goddamn Band. Lead single ‘I Could Be With Anyone’ is a charging and hook-heavy pop song equally indebted to The Cars and Superchunk, whilst the title track is a massive and dynamic homage to the epic guitar freakouts of Neil Young and Built To Spill. But far from being solely a straight up 'rock' record, some of ‘Brother's Blood’s finest moments are its quietest; opener ‘All Of Everything, Erased’ lays a bed of nimble and rhythmic finger-picking for its vivid description of a world left no recourse but to cleanse itself of us and start over; ‘Fever Moon’ is a sultry, Latin-influenced meditation on lust and its consequences that wouldn't seem out of place on a 1970s Leonard Cohen album; and on ‘Tomorrow's Just Too Late’, Kevin and Brand New's Jesse Lacey deliver a delicate and weaving full-song harmony that would make Simon & Garfunkel proud. This is the record us fans have been waiting for.
'Brother's Blood' is released via Big Scary Monsters Records on 20th July 2009. Look out for Kevin touring the UK this summer with Brand New and Manchester Orchestra.
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Kevin Devine - Brother's Blood
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MP3: Myspace
Video: I Could Be With Anyone
