Rating: 4/5
Review:
A good album
This is a good album of well performed and well crafted
songs. It's a pleasingly varied
selection, loosely categorizable as Americana
but with elements of soft rock, alt.-country and folk in places. It's quite hard to pin down, really – which I
think is a good thing. When I first
heard the opening song, Lay Down Your Love, I thought "That sounds a bit
like The Byrds…oh, and Trees…" and other bands as the track went on. Then Here Then Gone's harmonies made me think
of The Civil Wars…and so on. Even
Fleetwood Mac (in the Nicks/Buckingham incarnation) crossed my mind in places.
It's all good stuff.
They're very listenable songs with attractive melodies, very good
harmonies and very good arrangements and production. These three are fine musicians and they've
produced a very decent album. There is a
lot of good alt.-country/Americana around at the moment and I'm not sure this
stands out strongly from the crowd, but it's a good album and if you like this
genre you'll like it for sure. Recommended.
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