Bamboos - Fever in the Road

2013 release, the sixth album from the Australian Soul band. Fever in the Road is the follow-up to last year's ARIA-nominated and much-loved Medicine Man album. Bandleader, producer, and main songwriter Lance Ferguson worked again with producer John Castle (Washington, Josh Pyke, Pez) venturing into sonic landscapes The Bamboos have previously touched on but never fully inhabited. There is a sense that the music is leaner and more muscular, yet upon closer inspection the tracks reveal themselves to be densely multi-layered in a 'Wall of Sound' style. And it's this aural complexity and depth that allows darker moods to roam through the album, taking their sound to a new place. The songs career from the wondrously anthemic to the dreamy and psychedelic and the darkly fragile. This time around, all 11 tracks feature regular vocalists Kylie Auldist and Ella Thompson.