Monday, January 27, 2014

The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow

First listen through, it starts with "Green Eyes and a Heart of Gold", up-tempo altish-country-rock, guitars and electric bass, drums and accenting harmonies all the way through, bits of banjo and mandolin, prominent lyrical references to New York City ("the F train takes us home"), ok but not life-changing; and then, three and a half minutes into hitherto quietly folkish second track "Tree To Grow", the build to and sung-shouted harmonised rise on the line "it gets harder and harder" - and I knew I was gonna like this one. Repeat listens reveal an all round solid modern americana record, covering the usual bases well; in the ballpark of, say, the Everybodyfields.