What’s my style here, “Self-Titled”? I can’t remember, and I am not going to look it up. This is a band of a woman and several men, not girls, and perhaps they are not in trouble, either. The songwriting will get better, and it’s especially questionable in “Marble Floor.” But the synths make it better. It’s worth a shot.
Like a lot of debut albums, you hear the potential here and there, and if you’re rooting for them like I am, you hope they pick the right aspects to emulate as they mature as an act. The faster tracks definitely sound more natural for these guys. “Mountain/When My Father Came Back” speeds right along, and all the musical accompaniment fits together well with the vocals. It seems that on the slower tracks that the same components are there, but they don’t work together to become anything greater than the sum of their parts.
A lot of these songs have slashes in the titles. Kordell Stewart would be proud. “Hunter/The Bee Lays Her Honey” is one such song and reminds me of Barbara Manning. Maybe it’s two separate songs, because this one clocks in at 5:36.
“Who Sent the Heat” has nice strings as well, or at least I think they’re strings. I don’t know where the angus is.
So the album is okay. There is potential here, and it remains to be seen what happens next. I wish them the best, though.
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