Cousins - The Halls of Wickwire (2014)

2014 release, the third album from the Alt-Rock duo. Cousins are Leigh Dotey and Aaron Mangle and they are the hardest working band in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They are a guitar/drums duo that plays Rock 'n' Roll music for today. THE HALLS OF WICKWIRE is generously filled with fuzz and reverb. This record will change your life if you let it. A heartbreaker and a healer, it looks an awful world dead in the eye, fills the lungs up with all that pain and worry, and then comes back breathing a beautiful fire. This is the fine art of defense and hope. A ramshackle monument built over a steady spring of melancholy. Electricity and blood in the lines. Guitar and drums. A musical avalanche set apart from the macho and debaucherous posturing and fictions of rock culture.