Hem's new album
Oct. 14th, 2006 05:19 pmI got Hem's new album, Funnel Cloud, from iTunes today. (I can't BELIEVE I forgot that it came out last month! Six whole weeks I could've had this!)
It is gorgeous. They are my most favorite band ever, and they haven't let me down this time. While they have been categorized as "alt-country," their sort of "country" isn't cowboy hats and dogs in the back of pickup trucks. (Leave that down on Broadway and Second Avenue, if you please.) It's girls in cotton bonnets picking apples, or an old couple holding hands as they walk down a dirt lane towards their farm. To be honest, in a lot of ways, it's like a well-edited movie soundtrack. Or alternately, it's a well-rehearsed ballet; whatever they are, they are graceful above all.
( A review that's way too long )
It is gorgeous. They are my most favorite band ever, and they haven't let me down this time. While they have been categorized as "alt-country," their sort of "country" isn't cowboy hats and dogs in the back of pickup trucks. (Leave that down on Broadway and Second Avenue, if you please.) It's girls in cotton bonnets picking apples, or an old couple holding hands as they walk down a dirt lane towards their farm. To be honest, in a lot of ways, it's like a well-edited movie soundtrack. Or alternately, it's a well-rehearsed ballet; whatever they are, they are graceful above all.
( A review that's way too long )