Les Brown – ‘The Next One’ [Album Review]

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer Les Brown called his first album The First One. Appropriately, he christened his recently released sophomore album, The Next One. Brown’s sound is all over the map and includes elements of experimental rock, art rock, ambient, jazz, instrumental rock, kraut rock, and psych-rock. Brown explains, “My albums are meant to be like Forrest Gump‘s box of chocolates: ‘You never know what you’re going to hear.’ If one tune isn’t your favourite flavour, try a different one.” Brown continues: “I blend music genres, geographic regions, languages, and instruments to make unique music with emotion and feeling. Some songs invoke fun or playfulness, while other songs are closer to rock or jazz, and others are entrancing psychedelia, an audito...

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