An album bursting with vivid seedy imagery and hard hitting, totally compelling storytelling. Andrew Dowdall reviews.
Indie/alt-country
Wilco – Wilco (The Album)
It’s Wilco. You know what you’re gonna get if you have any transitory knowledge of their work. And the band knows it doesn’t have to be different or strange in order to be great.
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart EP
James Dalrymple suggests that you keep Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan’s fine new EP in mind – do you see what he’s done there? – to put in your Christmas stockings
Lambchop – OH (Ohio)
Lambchop flex their creative muscle in characteristically low-key style again; but the Devil is in the detail.
Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
Jenny Lewis sheds the Watson Twins on her second and possibly permanent sabbatical from Rilo Kiley, but picks up a busload of famous friends and keeps some twang whilst also visiting plenty of other new destinations.
The Donkeys – Living On The Other Side
These West coast slacker country-rockers deliver on Gram Parsons vision of ‘cosmic American music’, with their vintage sounding amps going all the way up to about, say, 6. A warm loose-fitting sound that is all enveloping in its comfortable loveliness.
