This single from the Brooklyn based duo of Christy and Emily opens with Shadow: a quiet, piano-led song with very carefully sung vocals which make it sound like it's meant to be a chill out song. The more I listen to it the more it sounds like a modern re-working of a lost Carole King song; very pleasant but also rather slight almost soundtrack-like.
The B-side, Railroad, is more of a twangy country-ish number that often sounds almost out of tune but purposefully so as they sing about being at home on the railroad. And as the song develops around a slowly-picked guitar figure, it's like we are on the slowest railroad imaginable going through the countryside to nowhere in particular. Quite nice to put on as you go for a picnic, it has a lazy afternoon feel to it.
Not a bad single. It just about manages to not be twee.
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