Von Hertzen Brothers: In Murmuration, Part 2

[@lactodorum-13]

Great reaction Jim although I was half watching you and half watching a chattering of starlings just outside my window. They were here to listen to some amazing music 🥰. Those last 3 tracks, just so emotional.

[@mythoflogic]

Excellent album! Thanks for your support, Jim. Cheers!!

[@JimNewstead]

You’re welcome!

[@MaraxisArcanist]

You just never know what kind of song you're going to get from these guys next. Pretty decent stuff!

[@JimNewstead]

Yes, I really dig their music.

[@Ericmeredith3209]

I have heard a lot of disappointment out there about this record. Honestly I do get it . Red Alert is a masterpiece and probably their most progressive works. But as a stand alone record , this is truly very strong rock record! It took me a few listens to love this, but it is a solid effort by these cats! Loved the reaction Jim! 🤘

[@JimNewstead]

Two different aspects of the same band, both sublime.

[@Ericmeredith3209]

@@JimNewstead I agree!!

[@rudolfbecker4313]

Same with me ... this album has to grow on you ... there are a few "wow-moments", but the more quiet songs need some turns until you completely get it. And one thing's for sure ... thb brothers don't repeat themselves from one album to the next.

[@Ericmeredith3209]

@exactly!!😀

[@kevinkilner2388]

Great reaction Jim. To me the majority of this album has a feel like the Nine Lives / New Day Rising releases - shorter snappier numbers but still with catchy / aching melodies. The odd one out for me is probably Snowstorm (which is my favourite track on the album) - It could easily fit into the track listing of War Is Over

[@JimNewstead]

I think these are going to be some great live tracks, some real bangers!

[@kevinkilner2388]

@@JimNewstead Agreed - Troon (that will be interesting as its a shorter set - 1hr), Buckley then London for me so no doubt I'll see you at The Garage

[@threestringsomg]

Love the start....its a Kinks kind of beat and feels - oh yeah and QOTSA for sure great call Jim🥸. Always like the odd quirky melodies Von Hertzen Bros bring together. Getting 60s vibes 😸 Just like the last record, I'm getting that 'what is this??' vibe in a good way. There's definitely something overall more upbeat about this album - a soulful choral element that melodically keeps you on your toes. Loooooove snowstorm 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️ 🌨️🖤Def getting the cd!💿👍 Wish i could be at the garage gig as id get to see these guys but mostly would get to meet you again Jim. Have a great time dude. Oh and wanted to ask are you going to the london Maiden gig next year Jim? (i managed to get a seat🤘!!!)

[@kenl2091]

On this album the wheel is not being reinvented but it has been incorporated into the Finnish equivalent of a Rolls Royce by some master wheelwrights. Sometimes (well, a lot of the time) I yearn for something unexpected that I haven't heard before, something that I can't get anywhere else, something at the limits. To be honest I'm not getting that here but I am getting the very best in pop/rock and for that, the Von Hertzen Brothers deserve fulsome praise. Will it be in my top 5 of the year? Well, probably not, because I want more than pop/rock but bloody good try, VHB.

[@JimNewstead]

Pretty much what I said yesterday…. Beautifully produced, played and realised accessible rock music. Absolutely love it. I think this might be in MY top 10 of the year!

[@jeffschielka7845]

Hey Jim! Hope you are well? Surgery tomorrow! Keep good thoughts for me. 👍🙏🙏🙏😎

[@JimNewstead]

Thinking of you Jeff. Hope everything goes ok. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😎

[@jeffschielka7845]

​@@JimNewsteadThank you my friend!!!👍😎

[@rudolfbecker4313]

music lovers think of other music lovers ... hope all is going well 🤘

[@rudolfbecker4313]

After having listened to the whole album, who clearly can tell, that it's different than Red Alert ... I like In Murmuration, but I like Red Alert a bit better ... I also like the War Is Over album (which you have somewhere on your shelf) a bit better than In Murmuration. Knowing three of the albums before those 3 I can say there is no bad album, not even a bad song ... but surely always different. So 2nd Dec is coming closer and closer and I know you will have a great time. I hope you'll meet Mikko and his brothers personally, have a drink with them .. and think of me ... who introduced you to this wonderful band .... and wished to be there with you 🤘

[@kevinkilner2388]

Rudi - sure you will have seen the details of the shows March. 2 in Holland and 2 in Germany. Hope you'll be able to get to see them again. I'll be at 3 of next weeks shows!

[@rudolfbecker4313]

@@kevinkilner2388 Hi Kevin, thank you for the information. I hadn't looked for about 2 weeks for additional concert dates. Actually the ones in Germany are further away so I'll be going to Helmond, which is only 100 KM from my house. Usually I'm going with my best friend or my son, both not the biggest VHB fans and I couldn't convince them yet ... so I said to my son, I'll buy his ticket, so now I don't have to go all by myself 🤣🤘

[@billnole2188]

As much as I enjoy VHB, that 1st song was a blatant rip-off of Queens of The Stoneage's song Np One Knows. Otherwise, very cool new album.