These
Big Apple indie rockers specialise in the slow-burning end of bar
room downer-addled country pop and, four albums into their career,
seem to have really found their mojo song-writing wise on ‘All
Yours’, released on the Captured Tracks label.
Pitching
up somewhere between Edie Brickell and Feist, this rootsy duo
consisting of Molly Hamilton (dreamy femme fatale voice, guitar) and
Robert Earl Thomas (lead guitar, hipster beard) really pack a laid
back punch, featuring three key highlights.
Standout
lead-off single ‘Girls’ sounds like it’s just fallen out of a
David Lynch movie, Molly emphasising her smokin’-yet-demure
credentials as heat-haze warped harmonica floats around the edges in
a beautifully precise lo-fi groove that keeps on giving throughout
its six tantalising minutes.
Then,
just as you think things can’t get better, we get the delightful
Bossa-Nova shuffle of ‘My Baby’s Gonna Carry On’. You can
practically hear Donald Fagen pounding his fist on the studio door
offering his services as the wall of sound instrumentation trades
blows with multi-track vocal harmonies to beguiling effect.
‘Hands’
serves as the soothing elegiac closer, jangly guitar enveloping the
listener before Molly’s breathless tones join in, the track
building beautifully with strings and some lovely bottom end in a
manner not unlike something Spiritualized would give their right
teeth to have put together.
Delicious.
Words - Mike Price
All Yours is released on September 4th
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