Going Home is the long promised and much delayed second album by The Children's Hour that was originally recorded in 2003 and has somehow taken 21 years to finally be released. As on the band's first album SOS JFK the trio are Josephine Foster, Andy Bar and Dave Pajo.
The album opens with the surprisingly gentle Soldier Leader, that I would have expected to be a lot more bombastic and angry sounding than this softcore laid back folk rock with wistful vocals, that remind me of Woodpecker Walliams.
Dance With Me down at your local indie folk club, so you can shuffle around the dancefloor, wondering if Josephine is singing about how you get down and get with it, if she really wants to Dance With Me, as the very Spanish style acoustic guitar accents the tune beautifully, before Dave replies to Josephine's imprecations, as they try to prove they really aren't the wallflowers that usually make music like this.
Bright Lights are very much the same Bright Lights that Richard and Linda Thompson were so enthralled by, although they sound far less drunken than that couple were.
Rainbow is barely there, stripped back to the essentials as Joesphine lets us know all the reasons why she needs some company to keep her fears at bay.
Adoption Day has a gentle feel to a song about what could be a truly traumatic or fantastic event in the life of an abandoned child, as they find out who their new family will be, the guitars gently coax you into believing everything is going to be good from now on.
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Anna is need of some very gentle bass drum led strumming for all the things that may have brought you to the edge of tears, things pick up enough for some very Roger Whittaker style whistling to signal a change in the direction of this rueful song.
Wyoming is as sparing and desolate as I imagine much of Wyoming to be, not much is going on, but it never is in Wyoming.
The album closes with Going Home which is I guess what they wanted to do after a day or two in the wilds of Wyoming, this is full of longing for your home town, in this case Chicago, while it doesn't much sound like the Chicago I spent many happy times in, but does recall a little bit of the sense of longing Two Nice Girls often had for their Austin home town.
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