Brindamor
‘Brindamor’
Self-released
In the age of the EP
and the MP3, it’s nice to hear a band offer a heaping helping of tracks like the
Rochester neo-traditionalist group Brindamor does on
its eponymous,10-track album. The first thing you stumble upon, amid the
string-band strain, is that this ain’t a string-band
record. But I can see folks digging this record and consequently falling for
the style the band emulates ever so gently. The drums give it a nudge in that
direction of what I guess could be called indie-string-band music. And “Brindamor” may serve, in some, cases as the gateway drug to
the beautiful traditions of that genre. The band plays relaxed and melancholic,
and conjuring ghosts within the sung stories.
This article appears in Mar 13-19, 2019.
