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Cat: DC 747. Rel: 17 Jun 19
Folk/Americana

Side 1 - Track 1. Shepherd's Welcome Side 1 - Track 2. Black Dog On The Beach Side 1 - Track 3. Angela Side 1 - Track 4. The Ballad Of The Hulk Side 1 - Track 5. Writing Side 1 - Track 6. Morning Is My Godmother Side 2 - Track 1. 747 Side 2 - Track 2. Watch Me Get Married Side 2 - Track 3. Young Icarus Side 2 - Track 4. Released Side 2 - Track 5. What Comes After Certainty Side 3 - Track 1. Confederate Jasmine Side 3 - Track 2. Call Me Anything Side 3 - Track 3. Son Of The Sea Side 3 - Track 4. Camels Side 3 - Track 5. Circles Side 4 - Track 1. When We Let Go Side 4 - Track 2. Lonesome Valley Side 4 - Track 3. Tugboats & Tumbleweeds Side 4 - Track 4. The Beast

Singer-songwriting wrapped up in the dusty acid wash denim of Americana doesn't really get more authentic than what Bill Callahan of Silver Spring, Maryland, can deliver. His latest LP, a mass saunter through 20 tracks of smokey spoken word and lightly sung lyrics, falls upon a picturesque bevvy of humble and acoustic instrumentation. Callahan's songs croon with romance, metaphor, and folky yarns that find their place among fingerpicked guitars and light melodies that enjoy a contrast with the darker musings of Callahan's own world of experience and storytelling. It presents the artist with his first studio in some five years, and a sound that is looser than a typical Bill Callahan missive but full of melodrama that centres around life and death. Our pick, Callahan's cover of the Carter Family's "Lonesome Valley".