SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: BURS - SIGNIFICANCE, OTHERNESS

BURS
SIGNIFICANCE, OTHERNESS
BIRTHDAY CAKE RECORDS

How do you transfer the harmony-laden sound of early ’70s exemplified in CSNY, combined with a glance of that sound from the ’90s (Kingsbury Manx anyone?), and then brought to current times by Adrianne Lenker and Big Thief?

Sounds too complicated? Well, Toronto’s Burs don’t think so, as they make proof of it on their second album Significance, Otherness. The quartet make it seem so easy to do, but that just might be due to the fact that they obviously have deep personal involvement with all of the above sounds, but also the capabilities to pull such a sound through.

The 11 songs that comprise the album all sound fully thought out, the songwriting is intricately complex, but in no way complicated while the vocal and instrumental side of things is almost stellar. And yes, all those sounds that might have influenced Burs music are fully integrated into a seamless whole. A very surprising one for the close of the year.

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