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SONG ORDER: The Angels Were Wrong About Her / Please Erase All Memory Of Me / Wounded Songbird / 99 Beers

Blake Rainey and His Demons
Love Don't Cross Me
TWO SHEDS MUSIC 2014

Blake Rainey - Guitar Vocals
Eric Young - Drums, Backing Vocals
Joe Foy - Bass

Blake Rainey's most recent LP effort, A Man, Not A Biography (Spin Magazine - 7 out of 10 stars) might just signal the swan song of his longtime group, The Young Antiques, but after last year's live-in-the-studio EP Ambulance Alley Sessions, the Atlanta rocker/singer-songwriter is back with a full length studio album with his current outfit, Blake Rainey and His Demons (which consists of Joe Foy on bass and Eric Young on drums - a combination of talent that make them one of the music scene's best rhythm sections). The result is Love Don't Cross Me, a stoic and stylistically schizophrenic meditation on the prizes and perils of love—nine concise tunes that lay bare the puzzle pieces of those epic, classic human relationships we all know too well.

From indie-pop to country rock, punk to noise to folk, Love Don't Cross Me is a return to the character studies Rainey does so well, with songs that swing from naive young lovers to the hopelessly lost and alone, to forgotten losers who spit in love's face, to long-time lovers reflecting on their lives together. All in roughly 35 minutes.

Overall, Love Don't Cross Me is a tight sphere of an album not unlike a collection of short stories, each one dealing with what people want in love and life versus what they actually produce—be it more questions or a few tentative answers, but unquestionably some good stories along the way.