Through the Trees was the Handsome Family's breakthrough album, garnering enough attention and sales that they were finally able to quit their day jobs and focus on music full-time. The group subsequently toured the U.S. and Europe, while critics on both sides of the Atlantic went nuts for the Sparks' clever, brooding songs. With Through the Trees, the transitional phase heard on Milk and Scissors was complete and the duo emerged with a more defined style, delivery, and songcraft which becam...   [ read more ]

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On their most adventurous album yet and their best since 1998's "Through the Trees," Brett and Rennie Sparks have outdone themselves. Songs about haunted Wal-Marts, lovers who chase the fire in streetlights, very VERY deep holes, and the shadows that whisper inside of modern office buildings all give full voice to an eerily hopeful edge that has seeped into their music over the last year or so. A surprisingly low body count album, or as low as we're likely to get, which is meant to rip a tear in the veil b...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. First CTR 7" single for Brett and Rennie after all these years is a much delayed Double A-side special event. "Drunk by Noon" is the existential country hit from their debut album, Odessa (1995), that has been covered by Andrew Bird, Cerys Matthews (Catatonia), Sally Timms and Jon Langford (Mekons), and The Sadies. A few years back it even landed on the iTunes Celebrity Playlist for the character Jim Halpert of The Office & continues to be their largest selling digital single by far month aft...   [ read more ]

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