Fayetteville folk wonder Jude Brothers has dropped a new EP, "looking for water / finding home!," which bundles four live songs all performed with the harp as accompaniment.
Every song on the sophomore release from Fayetteville solo artist Jude Brothers concerns the excruciating ending of a long-term, life-altering romantic and creative partnership, but it’s no typical breakup album. The grieving process is rendered with such allegiance to even the most ephemeral moments of emotional honesty that no discrete chapters can be found.
It isn't out of the ordinary to find Arkansas/New Mexico singer-songwriter Jude Brothers singing alone with a lesser-known folk instrument as accompaniment, but one of the things that makes their new single, "practicing silence / looking for water," unique is that it's been stripped almost entirely of the reverb drenching their previous releases.