Bry Webb

Free Will

The Constantines are back together(ish), but that isn't stopping frontman Bry Webb from releasing his second solo LP. These 12 tracks of early Wilco-meets-working man alt-folk are occasionally drenched in distortion ("AM Blues", "Free Will", bonus cut "Receive Me") but mostly exist to showcase Webb's haunting yet playful baritone over sparse, meandering arrangements. On "Let's Get Through Today" he sings "the more fucked up things get, the more I love you" and that kind of sums up the listener's relationship with Webb - the more vulnerable his songs, the more we feel we know him. I guess it's like that with everybody, but Webb really feels like he's the guy next door making records.  

Published in Volume 68, Number 28 of The Uniter (July 2, 2014)

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