Following the release of his solo album in 2010, Pulling Arrows, Canadian singer-songwriter Reuben Bullock has assembled a quintet of multi-instrumentalists for his band Reuben & The Dark. The extra playing-power unfortunately drives Bullock’s songwriting away from emotional power, instead pushing it towards the cliff-face of painful excess. Funeral Sky aims to be a more textured affair than its predecessor, but the wider sense of ambition found on stadium-ready tracks like Rolling Stone and Bow And Arrow is undermined by formulaic songwriting and overwrought harmonies. The quieter tracks shine the brightest.
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