Sunday, May 26, 2013

Shovels & Rope - O' Be Joyful

"From the Crescent City to the Great Salt Lake, it ain't what you got, it's what you make."

"Birmingham" is a riot, next track "Keeper" (highlighted by a whole range of excited shouts and whoops) in a similar ballpark and similarly good. Those are the high points, and I like this record most in the moments when it approaches the kind of exuberance that animates those first two. Overall, likeable but probably not a big replayer, I suspect.