The Classic Brown, Aug. 31, Tritone

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The Classic Brown, Aug. 31, Tritone

POSTED: Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 4:46 PM

Filed Under: Music | Philly Bands Show

Photo from Classic Brown's MySpace. That's where you'll go if you click on it.

I've been waiting for this moment, all my life.

With a new bassist, dwindling crowd and no soundcheck, South Jersey’s The Classic Brown could be forgiven an off night. Instead, frontwoman Stacey Brown concentrated on her keyboard and let her band punch up songs like “Americana” and “Little Kensington.” Slow and pretty in their recorded forms on last year’s Down with Fun, they lost none of their intensity for the subtle switch in gears. Only fools left early, and they missed Brown’s solo outro, a twitchy take on “In the Air Tonight.” She’s too smart to try to replicate the drum sound — hell, even Phil Collins must realize it’s more effective to leave that to the imagination when he plays the song in concert — but Brown’s melody made it more alienated than accusatory. No extra punch necessary.

Bonus: Video of Stacey Brown doing "Beat It."

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