The Brother Brothers

Gentle second album from indie-folk balladeers.

Time was, performers lamented the weariness of a life spent touring. Brooklynbased twins Adam and David Moss don’t seem to feel that way, recording this tribute to love, simple pleasures and the catharsis of travel just as the world shut down. On The Road Again, hitched to the brothers’ sweet blood-close harmonies and finger-picked acoustic, comes from the same sunny place as Simon & Garfunkel’s Feelin’ Groovy, and celebrates the joy of forward momentum. The mellow title track hymns countryside and city, robin and whippoorwill against hipster streets where “everyone checks out your shoes”. With vocals as pure as the Everlys, fiddle so eloquent it might be singing, The Chase admits escape is a need: “It’s the way you gotta pack up and go…” Still, country waltz Waiting For A Star To Fall sounds like Buddy Holly in love: nostalgic, committed, rooted.