Big Dudee Roo Listen To Your Discontent
It might be called Listen To Your Discontent, but Big Dudee Roo’s second release sounds like it’s all about finding your bliss. Laidback, but far from lazy, the songs amble along, riding vocalist/bassist/songwriter Max Lockwood’s grooves down weathered roads of indie-folk-rock. Directly inspired by Neil Young, the band recorded the 12-song full-length inside the Petersen Barn in Rockford, capturing the crickets and frogs outside at night, and some purely pristine performances by day, including some excellent lap steel guitar work from their friend/Michigan folk-favorite Samuel Seth Bernard. The band shines the brightest on the mid-album majesty of “Crimson Trains and Gray Twilight,” where vocalist Aurora Lewis captures hearts and minds with a mantra of a chorus pleading for empathy. Listen now at bigdudeeroo.com.