Rating: 5/5
Review:
A good album
This is the first Honeyhoney I've heard and I am
impressed. It's an album of good,
well-crafted songs, very well performed and produced.
Honeyhoney put me in mind slightly of The Civil Wars with
their very good harmony singing and often rather mournful songs – although they
don't have quite The Civil Wars' agonized intensity. The vocal work is excellent and the
instrumental playing is just as good, I think, with a variety of instruments
and a fine backing section. The songs
are fairly varied in style from quiet, contemplative slow numbers to pretty
rocky settings and the whole album has a air of class over it, I think.
Perhaps a little more variation in tone might have been
welcome because it's all pretty minor-key dominated and downbeat so as a whole
album it gets just a little hard going for me, but individual songs are great
and listening to a few at a time means they really shine.
This is a welcome find for me, and I can recommend it – it's
a quality album.
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