Gentle, sighing, soughing folk music. The singer (Sally Ellyson) has one of those heart in her throat type voices, and the full range of instrumentation that one would expect is around it - twangy and acoustic guitars, mandolin, banjo, piano, strings, assorted percussion and orchestral effects - and it's all very sweet and nice. It's kind of end-of-day music ('eveningland', I suppose) - graceful, delicate and finely-wrought - but with more of a tendency towards highlighted, upswooping choruses and occasional baroque ornateness than I'd expected, sometimes pulling the songs more towards the melancholy, downbeat end of country than the folk streams in which they're rooted.
It's very sincere, and more trad than, say, Azure Ray (and neither better nor worse than that duo by virtue of it - just different)...and is on Rounder rather than Saddle Creek, which pretty much tells the story. It's a bit strange listening to it, though, and reflecting that it must be closer to the origins of this kind of music than those who've become more popular with variations on it, but hearing bits of outfits like Azure Ray (not that they've yet become immensely popular), Mojave 3, the Sundays, even up-to-and-including-Surfacing Sarah McLachlan (especially, in relation to that last, on "Redwing"). I prefer the more mournful-sounding numbers - "Pacific Street", which I'd heard before, is my favourite.
