The Unfaithful Servants – Fallen Angel (2025) Review: Fallen Angel, The Unfaithful Servants’ second full-length release, serves up a splendid sampling of the Vancouver Island-based quartet’s distinctive take on contemporary Americana. Call it newgrass, if you will, which necessarily entails a predominant bluegrass component augmented by lots of swing, tricky time changes, nicely woven melodic lines and the occasional hint of rock/pop in the mix. The Canadian band’s line-up of uber-talented whippersnappers consists of mandolinist Jesse Cobb (founding member of The Infamous Stringdusters), singer-songwriter-guitarist Dylan Stone, fiddle virtuoso Quin Etheridge-Pedden and bassist Mark Johnson. ‘Endless Highway’ sets the stage for the remaining tracks with its classic bluegrass framework, lovely solos, catchy melody, fine harmony vocals and tightly concentrated energy. ‘The Grass is Always Bluer’ stomps on the jazz accelerator, with Stone and Johnson providing Cobb and Etheridge-Pedden with exceptionally fine rhythmic support. The album’s closer, ‘Buried in the Snow’, is a stone-cold creepy murder ballad. — songlines.co.uk Track List: 01 - Endless Highway 02 - Never Leave You Again 03 - The Grass Is Always Bluer 04 - Real to Touch 05 - Fallen Angel 06 - Adeline 07 - The River 08 - Big Shots 09 - Negativity 10 - More Than Lovers 11 - Buried in the Snow Media Report: Genre: bluegrass Origin: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Format: FLAC Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec Bit rate mode: Variable Channel(s): 2 channels Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz Bit depth: 16 bits Compression mode: Lossless Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26) Note: If you like the music, support the artist