Search - :: The Bricks Might Breathe Again

painted saints and paul fonfara fall into the realm of spaghetti western/heroin klezmer/sad bastard chamber folk music and write tin can and twine romances in a color of rust with backdrops of long wind swept open roads framed by tangled barbed wire and naked telephone poles. Their songs are of ashtray broken hearts and lansdscapes of beauty and sorrow borrowing harmonies from old eastern europe, the desert southwest and the sentiments of working class rust belt americana. they also really like long winded and pompous descriptions. the bricks might breathe again has songs about taxidermy, factory assembly lines swimming in red brick dust clouds, fat children on epic bike rides in snow storms and naked cottonwoods. painted saints is made up of denver and minneapolis' finest including kelly o'dea, joshua granowski, chris hepola, jonathan kaiser and jackie beckey playing a thick mix of cellos, violins, violas, bandoneons, clarinets, guitars, drums, upright bass and saw.