Highbrow, introspective bedroom-pop album from Cynthia Nelson (Retsin, Ruby Falls), who plays drums, sings, and plays guitar, recorder, harmonica, and melodica, and newcomer Anna Padgett, who writes and sings the words and plays guitar. They are joined by Tara Jane O'Neil (Retsin, Sonora Pine, Rodan) who plays guitar and bass and handled production/recording duties, Tara Key (Antietam) plays guitar on one song, and Ida Pearle (Retsin, Ida) who lends hauntingly gorgeous strings to two songs.It's getting on ...   [ read more ]

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What is pure beauty? On their new 5-song EP., the Naysayer explores this and other timeless questions. A band that escaped easy genre classification on last year's "Heaven, Hell, or Houston" and the debut "Deathwhisker," the Naysayer here flirts brazenly with country. But this is not the country of a rock band stripping down to sound "homegrown." Production is slicker than in the past, resulting in a real Nashville-in-the-seventies sound. Instrumentation is straight-up country, with Matt Sutton (Malarkies,...   [ read more ]

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Anna Padgett's band, the Naysayer, may work with the template of alternative country ? apparent on the hushed, whistling opener "Dead End Road" ? but Padgett's songwriting, combined with her biting, kooky lyrics, is most closely related to the loopy, lo-fi psychedelia of Syd Barrett. Sometimes, like on the erotic narrative "66 Cicadas," Heaven, Hell, or Houston sounds like the sexy, seaward country-rock of Trailer Bride. But, while lacking some of Trailer Bride's catchiness, the Naysayer is a stranger, dar...   [ read more ]

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