If Alberta Cross isn't your new favorite band yet, then just give their new album Broken Side Of Time a few listens and you'll be humming their tunes in a matter of no time. The band mixes the grandiosity and space-rock of the Verve , with the roots rock stylings of My Morning Jacket (singer Petter Ericson Stakee is a dead ringer for Jim James) and Neil Young with or without Crazy Horse. The album is drenched in throbbing bass lines that lay the foundation for the haunting guitar riffs that follow from track to track. Stakee was listening to a lot of Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, and the darker side of Depeche Mode while writing the songs for the record, and those influences shine brightly throughout. "Taking Control," sounds like it could have been an outtake off of My Morning Jacket's sonic infused Z, while the title track could have been slipped in during Rust Never Sleeps sessions and not many would notice. All in all, Alberta Cross aren't breaking any new boundaries on this disc, but they prove that they get the path that was laid out for them and follow it perfectly.
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