The Wheat Patch by Brown Shoe

Brown Shoes The Wheat Patch is a study in simple songs that glide along effortlessly but then are buoyed, bounced, and thrown higher into the air by some intricate touches.
Travelling blends the bands harmony vocals in an airy wash like Coldplay, Keane, or Muse, but the guitar and drums actually seem to pick up on some sound I've heard across many areas of the Spectrum Coley Park (Folk-influenced IRE/UK Rock), Grand Drive (Country-influenced Rock), Lucid Fate (AltCountry), Loner (AltCountry), and My Morning Jacket (Jam Band).
Yet, many tracks on The Wheat Patch find their key from an intricate detail. For instance, Northern Lights gets it from Jim Mikesell's handclap drum backbeats. Those are the moments that pick up these floating tunes by adding just enough punctuation to cause you to look up from what you're doing and realize that the music has just touched you like your own heartbeat. - Music Spectrum

Mixing equal parts The Belles and Red House Painters, Brown Shoe has created a CD full of amazing and beautifully infectious pop songs. The band's somewhat ambiguously elementary name may be their biggest hindrance, but not judging a book by its cover pays off in full if you can look past the name and get to the music. Solid vocals and soothing melodies bring forth visions of summer sunsets and bonfires with your closest friends. This is honestly one of the best CDs I've heard in a while. -Josh (Scratch Magazine)

This quartet from the northern California city of Folsom sound very much like

an English version of Iceland’s Sigur Ros. But Brown Shoe is much more than

a Sigur Ros sound a like band. This foursome’s debut CD “The Wheat Patch” is

a collection of 12 original tunes that blends the ambient sound of new age

with some good old fashioned rock’n’roll guitar music. And then the lads

throw in some non-traditional rock music instruments like spoons and a banjo

into the mix for good measure. The vocal harmonies from all four band

members combine for a perfect mix with the ambient sounds of the new age

style music.

Sigur Ros may have started the move toward the idea of new age rock, but

Brown Shoe is here to make sure the genre is here to stay for some time to

come. - Anti Music Network

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