Reservoir

The eight-piece kaleidoscope-folk troup Ah Holly Fam'ly formed in the culturally sparse, desperate landscapes of rural Idaho before packing up for their current home of Portland. The paired voices of married duo Becky Dawson and Jeremy Faulkner thematically toe the line between a deconstruction of the sentimental, and a celebration of it. Reservoir flirts with the memories of youth, where man-made bodies of water built for agriculture and industry became places of recreation. At once fragile and overwhelming, the sophisticated avant folk chamber pop of Ah Holly Fam'ly courses a steady path on Reservoir, a place where the past meets the present and familiarity is concealed by alienation, with a sound that hearkens back to the rural Appalachian folk of yesterday and flirts with today's avant folk experimentalism.