Faith In Greater Things? doesn’t solve all the questions it unveils, but it asks them and inspires LongRoad through them, in an eternal creative communion.
FAITH IN GREATER THINGS? – LONGROAD
It is not with an affirmation but with a question that LongRoad is actually coming back on stage. Should we have faith in the greater things? I couldn’t, and won’t, try and answer the question here. If it’s asked, the band seems to seek answers without ever settling on a definitive one. And that’s exactly why their music is so rich and fascinating to me.
It’s a warm rock, simple in the noblest sense of the word, and that lets through a certain vulnerability. New Song, the first track of this album, has a lot of it, like Breathe, supple and dark at the same time, and Fade Away. If the beautiful sepia cover doesn’t completely pay tribute to the colours put on by some tracks. Inspired and Shadows in the Starlight have a smile, a charm, a softness. And I also find them in the melancholy and introspective instants of the record. For example, with that voice, hanging over a whisper, and the compositions at the border of folk, for Why?, or even at the border of grunge and punk, with Crash.
And, with a solid and clean production by Barrett Jones, LongRoad signs a wonderful comeback this year. If some aspects of their alt-rock will speak loudly to those, like me, who grew up in the 90s/00s, they actually are in perfect harmony with 2023’s alt-rock. That familiarity of these sounds and the bond LongRoad’s members share really shape the wonderful record that is Faith in the Greater Things?.
