Father and son duo Richard and Harry Grace along with bandmate Dave Needham make up Tumbler, a trio that barrels through several musical genres on their debut album, "You Said." The album cover features teenage Harry catapulting himself off a cliff in Portugal, and in many ways, this collection of a dozen tracks feels like a jumping off point. The opening guitar riff on "Dead Man's Bones" begins with a nod to Chopin's Funeral March and only gets stranger. The lyrics are written from the perspective of a corpse during an autopsy while the music is reminiscent of a broad folk anthem in the vein of the late Pete Seeger. This contrast emphasizes the tension between the whimsical and morbid...
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