Kevin Bronson on September 15th, 2011

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The barb-heavy barroom rock of Stephen Brower & the Silent Majority swings through plenty of shades of Americana – punk-blues, fractured folk and Southern fried classic rock among them – but the songs on the band’s new album “sb/sm” get in and out of your face so quickly that nothing wears out its welcome. Brower’s tightly wound songs are like doing shots between debates about politics, anecdotes about tweakers and hard partying and tale tales about world travels. Not for people who just sip.

||| Download: “This City”

||| Live: Stephen Brower celebrates the album release with a show Sept. 29 at the Silverlake Lounge, supported by Trevor Menear and Parents. More immediately, the band does an in-store at 7 p.m. Friday at Vacation Vinyl, and plays Saturday at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown as part of the 7th Annual Cracker/Camper Van Beethoven Campout.

||| Also: After the jump, check out the video for “White Suburbs of London”: