A few years ago I was very much taken by an album called All Yours by Pacific Northwest duo Widowspeak. So much so that I bought it as a Christmas present for a nephew. I suspect he barely played it.
Now they're back with a new record Plum, and I'm rather partial to this too. Nine groovy, shuffling laidback songs that seem purpose built to improve the listeners mood. Somewhere between Stevie Nicks and Mazzy Star if you need reference points. Dreamy, soft psych that is not so much verse chorus verse as evocative, creating and sustaining a rather lovely ambience.
There's also a pleasing simplicity, a modesty about the record that makes it very easy on the ear. Not a record that's likely to shake your world as one that's likely to settle it, and one that's extremely good company for its thirty five minute run.
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