This week's RTÉ Radio 1 Album of the Week is Brand New Day by The Mavericks.
What we say: The genre-bounding Grammy winning country-latin-rockabilly outfit split in 2004, reformed in 2012 and now release their first studio LP on their own Mono Mundo Recordings label, inviting listeners onto a dance floor where they can Dance The Night Away - see what we did there? Mixing it up with gleeful abandon and a keen political edge - lead singer Raul Malo has been a vocal critic of President Trump - this is a record with swagger and sway, and the band's finest work since their hit-making heyday.
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What they say: “Here we are,” says Maolo, “a bunch of middle-aged guys playing music nobody can describe, and we’re still doing it and having more fun than ever.”
What the critics are saying:
One would expect that a title like Brand New Day would, in fact, herald a musical rebirth of some kind. So when The Mavericks release a new album that essentially replays their signature sound, the band doesn’t exactly lend itself to truth in advertising... That’s not necessarily a bad thing. (Paste Magazine)
The title track sounds like a long-lost Motown classic produced by Phil Spector in the 1970s and if Easy As It Seems doesn't inspire your inner Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers, check if you still have a pulse. (New York Times)
Listen to Brand New Day in full below, via Spotify:
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