Brian Olive

Add Date: August 9 

Artist: Brian Olive 

Album: Two of Everything 

Label: Alive 

Genre: Rock, psych pop

Comments: From the promoter: "Following his 2009 self-titled debut, which was praised for skillfully blending soulful R&B with raunchy garage and psychedelia, Brian Olive... takes us further on his latest full-length Two of Everything. Listeners will recognize a number of musical touchstones here (Night Tripper-era Dr. John, Exuma, early Funkadelic, Canned Heat, West Coast psych, etc.), but the end result is completely Olive's own, an insanely dynamic, soulful, psychedelically-rich summer album..."

This is definitely a nice combination of psych rock, funk, blues and more. For fans of Olive's former band, The Greenhornes, as well as The Coral and The Black Keys--indeed, Dan Auerbach co-produced Two of Everything. The album is solid throughout, but start with tracks 1, 3 and 2.