January is rarely the most rewarding month for new Rock and Roll releases and 2021 seems unlikely to buck this particular trend. But speaking of buck, Big Thief's guitarist Buck Meek has come along to liven proceedings somewhat with a charming and diverting set of Country Folk hoedowns called Two Saviors.
It's all rather hokey and corny. Hardly essential but not really trying to be. None of the underlying durm und Strang that Big Thief customarily stir into the mix to a some degree , but plenty of their cosmic awestruck wonder at the very condition of simply being alive.
Giving the impression that many of these songs were dreamed up and constructed, even recorded around a campfire in the backwoods with good, travelling friends, Two Saviors is loose and slack and decidely throwaway, in best beatnik, freewheeling American tradition, and all the better for all that.
No comments:
Post a Comment