Three Blind Wolves - The Sound of the Storm

Album Review by Finbarr Bermingham | 15 Apr 2010
Album title: The Sound of the Storm
Artist: Three Blind Wolves
Label: Instinctive Racoon / Euphonios UK
Release date: Out Now

Ross Clark’s first album You Brought Evil (2009) was one of significant promise: a spacious, nebulous record, built around the Glaswegian singer’s distinctive voice. On The Sound of the Storm – from Clark’s new band Three Blind Wolves – his voice is again to the fore, but this time it’s the centrepiece of a multi-pronged, country rock outpouring. The promise of his debut is realised in full; the tracks which have been recycled from it are more rounded and polished, revitalised by a fuller sound.

From the gorgeous, tender Emily Rose, to the spring-stepped Hotel and the epic eponymous track, his full song writing canon is on display here, and it sounds mightily impressive. That Ross Clark is doing a better Jim James turn than the My Morning Jacket frontman can muster these days should be cause for the Kentucky native’s concern, but one for just about everyone else to celebrate. [Finbarr Bermingham]

 

Three Blind Wolves play:

Captain's Rest, Glasgow, (matinee show - 2pm), 24 April

West of the Moon, Ayr, 25 April

Captain's Rest supporting Frontier Ruckus (Ross solo), 18 May

Insider Festival, Aviemore, 18 June

West End Festival @ Òran Mór, 19 June

http://www.myspace.com/threeblindwolves