JEFF The Brotherhood's new album, Wasted On The Dream, comes out March 24. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
JEFF The Brotherhood's new album, Wasted On The Dream, comes out March 24.
Squaring up with JEFF The Brotherhood at any time during its decade-long career has been mercifully simple: Come for the riffs, stay for the riffs. Not much more is asked of the listener; when you hit play, you enter into an agreement wherein they lay 'em down and you soak 'em up. Wasted On The Dream, the first new album from brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall (formerly of Be Your Own Pet) since 2012, holds all the earmarks of big radio rock. It's the sort of thing that alt-rock stations would've lived and died on in the '90s, and it's all because of the riffs. They generously blandish the duo's pop and stoner-rock ambitions, create illusions, and fill out the sound in ways a guitar/drums duo often can't.
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