Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown

Shake The Roots

RATTLE SHAKE Scaled back, independent, blues howl from Bryant’s new trio.

Perennial support act

(on some of the world’s biggest stages), guitar wunderkind and soulful singer. Tyler Bryant has wasted little time making his mark. This, the band’s fifth album, is a left that feels right; the band stripped back to a trio, sepia tint album cover (that screams more serious artist than louche hard rockers), and a live-in-thestudio, blues and folk shuffle feel makes Shake The Roots something of a standout for Bryant and his band.

Released independently on their own label means this is something of a starter pistol for what the Shakedown do next. Which occasionally means they do get into a studio jam that an A&R man might frown at

(Shackles), but elsewhere their instincts are razor-sharp and their songwriting likewise: the bounce of Bare Bones, the grinding Ghostrider and the lilting

Good Thing are all illustrative of a band not afraid to kick new ideas around and keep moving towards the horizon.