Opening cut 'The Town and the Hills' sets out some of the album's central themes, examining the distance (geographical and metaphorical) between city and country. Meanwhile, 'California in Popular Song' is a sweet slice of sun-kissed pastoral pop that combines sweeping strings, a throaty low-down guitar, some gentle fingerpicking and Tali White's pensive vocal to become your new favorite Lucksmiths song. Elsewhere on the album, The Lucksmiths' familiar strum is traded in for brief dalliances with a disorde...   [ read more ]

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