Green Mohair Suits - Stan Wella (2024) Hi-Res

A quartet of expressive songwriters that take their four-part harmonies as seriously as they take their dedication to a good time. Green Mohair Suits (Brian Campeau, Richard Cuthbert, Jason Mannell, Ben Romalis) hold a reputation for inspired showmanship and performances as brash as they are emotive.

Occupying a broad musical landscape somewhere between Gram Parsons, Beck, Buddy Holly and The Beach Boys, Green Mohair Suits’ style basks in the glow of their self-coined glow of “Garage-grass”. There's classic 60s pop, a dash of reggae, bluegrass, indie folk and country in their combined songwriting styles – their voices and musicianship the glue that seamlessly surrounds their songs of heartbreak and hangover, humour and humility.

The first single 'Hell Or High Water' was described by The AU Review as "The gorgeous harmonies that the Green Mohair Suits are known for are present here, as is their meticulous musicianship. It has a Springsteen-esque vibe to it, with a vivid and desolate tale of despair and struggle slowly unfolding."

The follow-up single, 'You've Done It Again', trips along on a jaunty and infectious folk rhythm, written by Richard Cuthbert.

Throughout Stan Wella we get songs about the overriding power of love ('No One Else'), Brian Campeau's Ron Sexsmith-influenced 'Your Door', about coming to terms with someone cutting you out of their life, a rejection of the Tortoise and the Hare fable ('Slow And Steady') and a song inspired by a theoretical challenge to Jason Mannell to write a song for Jeff Tweedy of Wilco ('Praise The Thaw').

Across the album's dozen tracks, fans should expect happy sad songs (or sad happy songs) in a harmonious blur of booze-soaked good times, nuanced and sophisticated arrangements and that magical combination of voices.