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Brian Crook: Bible Black

Brian Crook's musical history includes playing in The Renderers, The Terminals and the more experimental Flies Inside the Sun. For his new release on the Arclife label, Crook has backed off the volume, toned down the purple prose and stripped back all the instrumentation, in search of sustained moodiness. There is a distinct strangeness in this album. It is full of winter coldness, melancholy and heartache. The characters in Crook's songs all suffer various heartaches. Song titles like Limitless Night and I Don't Like My Life should give you the general picture. But then life is full of ups and downs and the downs are what inspire songwriters such as Crook and a good many others who's music delves into the darker emotions of the human soul. Crook has immersed himself in his characters and the results although strange and unsettling, will appeal to his audience.

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