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The Brilliant Mistakes are a New York City-based band who specialize in melodic roots rock brimming with smart songcraft, vintage pop sounds and lush harmonies. Fronted by two songwriters, Alan Walker and Erik Philbrook, they draw you in with infectious melodies and seductive rock flourishes, then beguile with unexpected sonic twists, insightful lyrics and provocative themes, best exemplified by such envelope-pushing kindred spirits as Wilco, My Morning Jacket and Spoon.

Distant Drumming is the result of a year spent in a basement studio in the Woodlawn section of the Bronx, a heavily Irish enclave thick with redheads and soda bread, pubs and ample parking. Lincoln Schleifer, a fiftysomething unrepentant Jewish hippie who has made his own career as a great bassist working with such icons as Levon Helm, Donald Fagen, Boz Scaggs, Solomon Burke, Warren Haynes and many others,
produced.

The title for Distant Drumming is taken from the chorus of perhaps the album's most provocative and innovative track, "Becoming." It's about listening to and following the music that's inside you.

It is something The Brilliant Mistakes have always done as a group. We don't know where it is leading us. But we're enjoying the journey.

Listen:
The Brilliant Mistakes - "Good Year for a Change" (mp3)

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