Bigstrongbrute – ‘You Were Always Right’

Bigstrongbrute – ‘You Were Always Right’ (mp3)

Two of my housemates have been raving about Bigstrongbrute for a long time now, and both of them have better taste in music than me.  However, one of them has been teasing me mercilessly for liking Sarah McLeod, and the other one’s cat shat in my bedroom, so I’ve been disregarding their sentiments on music until I can get the smell of cat waste out of my clothing.

It’s been my loss. Paul Donoughue is from the Conor Oberst/Elliot Smith school of songwriting, where raw emotions and recordings take the place of robust vocal chords. ‘You Were Always Right’ works though, because Donoughue has written a song with good bones and left enough room for added instrumentation as the song builds.

Bigstrongbrute will be touring his new EP We Can Sleep Under Trees In The Morning with friend Carry Nation over the coming weeks.

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