`Faith` opens with some intricate guitar picking before heading into quite a fast-paced tune with lyrics sang at such a stride they are nearly spat out. A more straight forward rock song comes with `Miss Your Love` a narrative about relationship issues. The emptiness and separation, both human and physical, can almost be felt with the despair in Butler`s voice as he pleads over a quite hypnotic percussive beat. A song about the loneliness of touring and wanting to be back in familiar surroundings follows with title track `Home`. The vocals have a real melancholic feel to them. `Running Away` is built around a thumping percussive beat and catchy fretwork. More bluesy guitar work accompanies the entrancing percussive beat that underpins `Just Call` an aching plea of friendship. `Wade in the Water` is a more laid-back bluesy affair with some nice guitar fretwork throughout. Sitting here on the cusp of a British Winter, I could almost imagine I was out in the central Southern Pacific Ocean. A very rootsy, folky, kind of world music feel but a tune that I found very uplifting. The album kicks off with “Tahitian Blue” and it`s a little different to what I would expect. ![]() ![]() ![]() `Home` is their seventh studio album release and follow up to 2014`s `Flesh & Blood`. The John Butler Trio are a roots / rock band hailing from Fremantle, Australia, led by John Butler with Byron Luiters (Bass) and Grant Gerathy (Drums & Percussion).
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