This is a lovely collection of bluesy, soulful, acoustic, laconic songs with an intimately recorded feel. Suffused with quality from the inside out – a tactile raised border & discrete silver lettering in places adorning a pencil drawn portrait of RICHARD McGRAW, giving the album a definite Wild West wanted poster feel.
The music sounds just as classic with Leonard Cohen schooled lyrics, clunking acoustic guitar, pianos, double bass & brush stick drums, with a smattering of acoustic accoutrements every so often. Mortality & memorial seem to be the themes, but the album consistently sidesteps navelgazing & depressiveness well, leaving the listener an intense but positive feel.
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He says most of the album was recorded in a weekend, then put on the back burner until a year later, when they ran out of money & had to declare the album finished. Things have a funny way of turning out for the best, as the stripped down lo-fi feel is what makes the album so empathetic & intimate.
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