Wild Sweet Orange is a great indie band from Birmingham, AL that I recently discovered on Pandora. I'd been meaning to go ahead and pick up their full-length debut We Have Cause To Be Uneasy, but I didn't do so until last week. I shouldn't have waited so long because this is one great album. It's no coincidence that the title comes from a chapter title in the C.S. Lewis classic Mere Christianity. The album is full of spiritual allusions and mentions of God and the Church. I've always been intrigued when bands offer up deeper lyrics than usual and that's the case here. Front man Preston Lovinggood (another great name) is quite open about spiritual struggles and his honesty makes Wild Sweet Orange all the more appealing. Musically, the band has a slight Southern twinge to their guitar tone mixed with plenty of distortion. The acoustic guitar also plays a huge role on songs like “Sour Milk,” a scathing indictment of our parents' generation and their shortcomings. “Either/Or” boasts the catchiest guitar hook on the record while “Seeing and Believing” features one of the better crescendos I've heard in a while. Today's song is one of my favorite, with Lovinggood deftly moving from a whisper to a wail in the chorus. Wild Sweet Orange is currently on hiatus after the departure of a couple members. Hopefully they will forge ahead and continue to create music as excellent as this album.Wild Sweet Orange - "Tilt"
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