Brooklyn folk-rockers the Lone Bellow worked with Aaron Dessner on their upcoming album “Then Came The Morning”, and some of the National’s dark elegance is present in “Fake Roses,” the second single they’ve shared from the project. The tune’s warm tones and steady pulse also hearken to Arcade Fire’s somber Funeral ballad “Une Année Sans Lumière” or Wilco’s “Via Chicago,” and there’s a weathered grace to the vocal, the sighing pedal steel and moody twilight atmospherics, the Lone Bellow have made a fantastic leap here, distancing themselves from a post Mumford hordes and proving that a class of stately indie rock is still capable of sounding fresh and vital.
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