Lost Brothers, The: Halfway Towards A Healing (Vinyl LP)

If Irish duo The Lost Brothers ever did wander astray, their music suggests they ended up lost in the woodlands. Oisin Leech and Mark McCausland’s cabin in the woods-style folk music is built on whispering harmonies, deft acoustic fingerpicking and wispy melodies that comfortably fit next to the Simon and Garfunkel or Bonnie Prince Billy corner of your record collection. Not surprising as it is produced by Howe Gelb / Giant Sand.

The band’s fifth album, Halfway Towards a Healing, echoes and creaks like old floorboards. The instrumentation on tracks such as 'Echoes in The Wind', a highlight, feel delicate in your hand – the guitar playing rarely revving up beyond the stronger strums of 'Cry for a Sparrow'. The Lost Brothers do, though, occasionally deploy mariachi-style horns for extra flavour. 'Reigns of Ruin', for example, is an instrumental that could score a lonely cowboy’s slow horse ride towards America’s southern border. (The Irish Times)

1. Echoes In The Wind
2. Where The Shadows Go
3. Come Tomorrow
4. Cry For A Sparrow
5. More Than I Can Comprehend
6. Rains of Ruin
7. Halfway Towards a Healing
8. Songs of Fire
9. Summer Rain
10. Iron Road
11. Nothing's Going To Change Me
12. The Ballad of the Lost Brother