Honest - A Lion Named Roar

REVIEW: A Lion Named Roar takes a huge, atmospheric sound that reflects an indie aesthetic, and then marries it to equally grand pop ambitions aimed squarely at the thinking-man’s mainstream. Think fun. in bed with The National all of it delivered with a bracing self-confidence and unapologetic commercial appeal. This five-piece, led by Chris Jackson and Tyler Anderson, fills the six songs on “Foreign Land” with an album’s worth of sweeping melodies and vocal arrangements so pretty they’d make Ben Sollee blush.

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