The dB's: Falling Off the Sky – review

(Blue Rose)It starts with an admonition: "You better wake up, that time is gone." It ends with a promise not to return. If the founding members of power-pop quartet the dB's regrouped for their first album in 30 years with a modicum of confidence, you wouldn't think it from the album's lyrics. These are bittersweet songs of experience: reflective, sorrowful, mourning lost places, faces and times. Far Away and Long Ago, sung by Chris Stamey in his best imitation of Paul McCartney, is particularly...

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