Sunday, February 09, 2014

the everybodyfields - Plague of Dreams

An earlier one by the everybodyfields (I've kept on listening to the lovely Nothing is Okay, and in scouring the wilds of the internet for the relatively little that's been written about this wonderful three piece, have discovered that their name is lower-cased). There's a purity to it, arising in no small part from the simplicity of its meldings of voice, acoustic guitar, dobro and fiddle, but also a wracked air - a sense of hurt and striving - that causes it to stick all the more. Jill Andrews sings, heart-in-mouth and heartbroken, on two of the highlights with "The Only King" and "Can't Have It"; Sam Quinn's at the helm for the other, his plaintively scratchy voice just the right fit for the dreamy, end-of-the-river/end-of-the-day feel of "Good To Be Home"'s six minutes-plus.