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"Young Sick Camellia" is the third full length studio album from Birmingham, Alabama soul band, St. Paul and The Broken Bones, released September 7th, 2018 through the Records label.
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Five years in, St. Paul & The Broken Bones have just released their third album, with each thematically different from the other. While 2016’s acclaimed Sea of Noise stamped them as a socially conscious outfit, this Young Sick Camellia, looks deeply inward with leader, Paul Janeway’s most personal lyrics yet.
Here Janeway explores his own family dynamic, questioning generational differences and trying to find common ground. Along the way, he fought to understand how people can relate to one another when their views and experiences could vary greatly. He continues to find the process cathartic. This could be the first installment of a series. We’ll see. Given Janeway’s wife’s masters in literature, Paul is increasingly putting more care into his lyrics, taking it on as a major challenge. Somehow though, the band finds that elusive place where music can be fun and danceable while remaining intelligent and provocative.
Reviewed by Jim Hynes for Glidemagazine.com.
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