Press
January 29, 2008
Bret Mosley's Light & Blood Gives Beautiful Testimony
After years of playing to a growing club audience, Brooklyn, NY-based Bret Mosley has just released his first studio album Light & Blood on Woodstock MusicWorks records. Five years in the making, the album is roots folk rock at its best.
Quietly stunning in its seemingly simple beauty, it remembers slow, warm country nights, sleepy Sundays preaching the gospel and falling in love. Mosley summons the American spirit with rich and soulful vocals, sharply beautiful lyrics and ingenious instrumentation.
All thirteen tracks, recorded live with no over-dubs, are an example, in themselves, of the way it should be done. The album revels in dirt roads and one-room church houses ("Preachin' Blues"), with shouting sisters and grinning Deacons. It celebrates the experience of a long desired woman ("Water Girl"), and runs through the gamut of spiritual emotion without hurry or worry.
If the mood for a well told journey through the joys and pains of living strikes on a day of rest, Mosley's Light & Blood is what will suit. The perfect atmosphere for this piece of work is on a rainy day with no distractions to hold you back from fully appreciating the craftsmanship that went into sculpting such an insightful album. Blending folk rock, blues and grass roots, Light & Blood is a kickback that should go into your collection for such an occasion, because it reminds us to relax and listen. Just listen.
—Kenya Jones