Album Review: Handasyd Williams & The Brothers Primitive - Ironsight

Handasyd Williams' bio talks up the alt-country style of his music, but there's more rock than country happening on his first album with band The Brothers Primitive. There's plenty of mandolin, banjo and pedal steel to countrify things but the focus is firmly on Williams' distinctive voice, with its strangled angst-ridden delivery reeking of '90s alt-rock, somewhere between Daniel Johns, Gavin Rossdale and Paul Dempsey. The songs hit the right shapes and sounds, particularly the slower ones that have a lighter touch, but the end result overall is fairly standard and uninspiring.