“That’s one of the great things about The Band of Brothers…it’s more of a ‘sound’ than anything else.” That “sound”, an unmistakably Celtic flavored layering of guitars and keyboards with often unconventional arrangements of fiddle, mandolin, accordion and percussion, serves as Brian Fitzpatrick’s most succinct explanation of his latest release, The Northern Lights E.P. What it modestly omits, however, is the strength of the songwriting that underpins all of Fitzpatrick’s work – and which provides its own cohesion and consistency. It also belies the many years of art and craft Fitzpatrick has applied to this sound’s development, represented by the steady musical progression in the pentad of full albums that preceded it