Sunday Nightly

Cosmic Americana from Champaign-Urbana Illinois troubadours, The TRACTOR KINGS, their debut album on our local-scene documentary imprint, Mud Records. Songwriter Jacob Fleischli's overcast DYLAN-esque vocals ride the swells of gracefully strummed acoustic guitars, a nearly religious lap steel, provoking psychedelic electric guitar flourishes, a spectral casio, folky mandolin and eerie fiddle, haunting harmonies and drummer Rebecca Rury's rolling tom-toms, sizzling cymbals and tambourines. Drawling, poetic pop songs that waltz amidst luscious early-4AD atmospherics and a goosebump-inducing New Zealand-ish droning. Like the cover art suggests, there's a bit of "rural cathedral" (a genre I may have just invented) in the sounds you find on 'Sunday Night'. A homespun sonic melancholy, a headphones record echoing the works of BEACHWOOD SPARKS and The FEELIES, RICHARD DAVIES and The MOLES, The VOLEBEATS and OUTRAGEOUS CHERRY, along with BO DYLAN and the UNCLE TUPELO/SON VOLT/WILCO trinity. Dark, mystical tales of addiction, of loves lost and won, of death and maidens.