Brady Grey - Three Crows
BRADY GREY RELEASES POIGNANT ‘THREE CROWS’
Indie-folk singer-songwriter Brady Grey recently released his LP, Three Crows, an album flanked by love and pain.
Brady Grey | Photo: Lee Vue
Written during his wife’s diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder causing intense lingering pain, Three Crows narrates the anguish of the one watching a loved one suffer.
Brady shares, “It’s told from the perspective of being in a relationship that ends up being more complex than I thought it was going to be. Being a husband, a lover, and sometimes a caregiver, which is just different than what you expected.”
Produced and recorded in a basement in Minneapolis, the album features Brady Grey (vocals, guitar, bass, synth), Johnny Syn (drums), and Natalie Warren (saxophone). From 2012 to 2019, Brady Grey and Johnny Syn toured and played with their band Step Rockets, sharing the stage with Blondie, Bleachers, Bon Jovi, and Third Eye Blind.
Brady’s voice, rife with elusive sorrow, gives the lyrics glimmers of optimism surrounded by gloom.
Comprising 10-tracks, the album starts off with “Fall (Reach),” opening on resonant guitars backed by a darkly ominous bassline flowing into a low-slung alluring melody rippling with portentous energy. Rumbling, syncopated percussion fills the tune with heavy echoes as Brady’s evocative voice imbues the lyrics with urgency.
Entry points include “I’m Not There Yet,” initially a light folk-flavored tune, followed by adding thrumming layers of sound, injecting the song with creamy, clotted heft. On the chorus, the vocals take on strident timbers, penetrating and yet trembling with tenderness.
Cavernous reverberations infuse “Wake” with shadows, and then the tune adds gleaming accents, while Brady’s tones invoke almost religious ardor. “Mandala” offers dual layers of coloration, one light and almost shiny, the other thick and murkier. Brady’s voice, rife with elusive sorrow, gives the lyrics glimmers of optimism surrounded by gloom.
The final track, “Descendant,” delivers soft vocals, gentle and intimate, rife with the progeny of his unthinkable reflections – unforeseen gratitude, profound love, and wistful comprehension.
Exquisitely wrought by the spectrum of sensitivity and heartache, Three Crows mirrors the impressive articulation of the emotions of Brady Grey.
