The boys from California return with their most authentic and ambitious album to date. Recorded and mixed in only four days in an old house in Escondido, this record is a rare and revealing look at a band on the verge of greatness.

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Four days. I have trouble getting my head around it. How did they record and mix an entire record in only four days? Bands spend three months, heck, they spend a year, making records that donât hold a candle to this one. How in the hell did they do it? Well, after many, many listens I may have figured it outâ¦

It starts with an old house in Escondido, California. Set-up the drums and bass in the living room, guitars and vocals in the kitchen and track everything live until you get the take that says it all. When youâre too exhausted to go on, simply sleep on the floor. Wake up the next day, get some fuel in you and start all over again. Now THAT, my friends, is how great bands make records.

Forget all the digital multi-track garbage the industry is trying so desperately to pass off as inspired. Our ears know the truth. Four guys playing together, that energy, that intent, youâll hear it, youâll feel it, and youâll know⦠this is what music was meant to sound like.

I remember once hearing Jeff Buckley say that the greatest moments of musical inspiration happen when youâre completely exhausted. What comes out when you have nothing left to give, thatâs where the magic is. I would have to agree. This record and this band are pure magic. Somehow, theyâve raised the bar again on every musician out there that thinks music and talent is about the clothes youâre wearing and which actress youâre screwing. Well, itâs not. And now we have proof.

Great songs and raw talent, the mighty Stewboss have it in spades. Taking a cue from Sam Phillips and the Sun Studios mentality, they went in and knocked out ten of the best songs you will hear on one record this year. Theyâre not playing country. Theyâre not playing blues or folk or even rock-n-roll, but somehow, the same feeling I get when listening to those old records from the 40âs, 50âs and 60âs, that feeling of reckless abandon and soulful wonder, I get that when listening to this album.

You will feel them in the room with you. On âThe Ghost of Adelineâ they sing, âshe is standing there beside you too and looks through you.â Like ghosts through the speakers, they creep in and take hold of you, raising the hairs on the back of your neck, until youâre left paralyzed by the sound in the room. Iâll freely admit, this doesnât happen to me much anymore. In fact, not since I was teenager listening to âMusic from Big Pinkâ, "Astral Weeks" or maybe âNashville Skylineâ. But now it happens when I listen to this band, and Iâm still not sure exactly why. And, you know what, I donât care anymore. Iâm just going to sit back, listen and be thankful for it.