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Biscuits & Gravy: ‘Hello Weekend’ Album Review
Written by Tati
For those of you who haven’t been paying attention to New Music Friday, Biscuits & Gravy are a Boston based band who Rosie interviewed a couple of weeks ago, after meeting (some of?) them on her worldly adventures.
Not to be confused with Biscuits N Gravy, an aging covers band with a ‘plethora of tunes’ (‘servin’ up Classic Rock, 70’s, 80’s and a pinch of Groove!’), these guys are this side of fifty and evidently have the looking-hip-in-band-photos thing down. Their new album, Hello Weekend, is a funky clustermonkey of an album, with hooks to drag you out of your seat and onto the dance floor of your mind with your imaginary sunglasses on. Title track Hello Weekend is a lounge-y affair with a tight arrangement; refreshingly, the album doesn’t lend itself to over-production, and the chemistry between band members is obvious. One gets the impression that a live gig would have much the same vibe, if a little hotter, as live gigs tend to be. Lead singer David Huddleston has a very natural, soulful vocal, and the brass are used sparingly and effectively, i.e. not rammed in your face drowning out everything ever, making their presence all the more delicious. I do love a good trumpet.
Biscuits & Gravy are like Youngblood Brass Band, but with subtlety. Like Stevie Wonder, but without Stevie, and a bit more up to date. If the entire Bridget Jones soundtrack was replaced with Biscuits & Gravy, I’d be able to last the film without having an empathy-induced shame spiral. I want to hear a B&G mash up with Amy Winehouse. I want this album to play from an unknown source when I get my sexyface on. It makes me feel like this: