The Glorious Sons’ second full-length album, Young Beauties & Fools, is all about honesty. More specifically, it’s about exploring the adventures (and frequent misadventures) of main songwriter Brett Emmons, in the truest way. It’s also an album where The Glorious Sons — rounded out by Brett’s older brother Jay Emmons (guitar), Chris Koster (guitar), Adam Paquette (drums) and Chris Huot (bass), capture all the listlessness and confusion of young adulthood in 10 doses of modern rock. Years of touring and playing has put this high-spirited rock band in a blue-collar frame of mind. Brett’s songwriting deftly explores the imperfect humanity of both himself and the many characters he introduces over the course of the album. The band’s 2014 album, The Union, was an immediate hit on the Canadian radio rock landscape. Glorious Sons scored seven consecutive Top 10 rock radio tracks, won two SiriusXM Indie Awards (Group of the Year and Rock Group of the Year) and received a Juno Award nomination in 2015 for Rock Album of the Year. Will Young Beauties & Fools live up to this legacy? In short, YES!
Young Beauties & Fools
1 My Poor Heart
2 Josie
3 Everything Is Alright
4 Come Down
5 Hide My Love
6 Godless, Graceless and Young
7 My Blood
8 Sawed Off Shotgun
9 So Much Love To Give
10 Thank You For Saying Goodbye
Contains Explicit lyrics
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Black Box Music
32 minutes
This Canadian band knows how to rock and on this outing the band shows they are still evolving and maturing musically, the result is a more complicated and richer sound. The lyric writing is off the charts and each pass throughout the ten tracks found me finding a new favorite track of the moment.
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