Thursday, 6 November 2008

The Handsome Family - Through The Trees

Loose VJCD105. 1998


They're still midway between the country sound of later work and the backwoods alt-twang of the earlier stuff. This is pretty much the perfect balance, and for me their best album.

Weightless Again was the first HF track I heard, and you'll know why I dug out their other stuff when you hear it. 

"That's why people OD on pills, or jump from the Golden Gate bridge - anything to feel weightless again"

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