Miracle Kicker
This
debut LP from 2008. is a real treat. Sitting down to listen to it again before
writing this review, I couldn't help myself, and at the end, had to play
it all over again...
Supported by the likes of Zane Lowe, Rob Da Bank and Mark Radcliffe, amongst others, DCLC specialise in a gorgeous sort of trippy folk-music. The press release mentions both The Strawbs and Can, and that seems appropriate. I'd be willing to bet that the people who fell in love with the Erland Oye-Royksopp-Kings Of Convenience Norwegian axis will fall in love with this too.
Sure, mixing electronica and folk is far from a new idea, but hearing it done this well is a rare treat. From opener 'Jealous Enemies' to closer 'Miracle Worker' this album is consistently wonderful.
Supported by the likes of Zane Lowe, Rob Da Bank and Mark Radcliffe, amongst others, DCLC specialise in a gorgeous sort of trippy folk-music. The press release mentions both The Strawbs and Can, and that seems appropriate. I'd be willing to bet that the people who fell in love with the Erland Oye-Royksopp-Kings Of Convenience Norwegian axis will fall in love with this too.
Sure, mixing electronica and folk is far from a new idea, but hearing it done this well is a rare treat. From opener 'Jealous Enemies' to closer 'Miracle Worker' this album is consistently wonderful.
The album is a font of glistening guitar plucking, hushed harmonizing
vocals, and brisk brushed drumming over a bed of lushly layered keyboard
swells. The entire effort swims in a deep ocean of melancholy, but
retains a lightness, a buoyancy in the atmosphere that prevents the band
and the listener from drowning. What strikes me the most with this
record is its pacing and tempos, in that, though the vocals and strings
call you, like sensual sirens, to crash and founder upon their beautiful
shores, the drumming presses each song steadily onward toward
completion. Even if you were to remove the rhythm section to discover a
fairly typical folk act, their voices and instrumental arrangements
still rich and enchanting.
Miracle Kicker is full of life and replete with a high degree
of musicianship; there should be more bands like this one out there
helping to redefine how folk and pop really could sound.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
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