Sorta something special – literate without bein’ boring, authentic without really tryin’ too hard at it, and accessible while transcending mainstream shit.
It doesn’t rock. It screams. It doesn’t roll. It steamrolls. What’s more, it has a message for the youth of America. “Stay Out of Jail,” a raucous marvel.
With a pedigree this impressive, you can imagine this reporter’s frothy drool upon seein’ some ads around trumpeting the forthcoming Knoxville Girls release.
If one holds her first genuine album released in the States, to the same standards as the self-titled best-of compilation, one will be a bit disappointed.
Johnny Dowd’s this furniture mover who lives in upstate New York and plays a little guitar and possesses a really vivid sense of tragedy, loss, and redemption.
High arpeggios, sliding octaves, singing like the guy from Knapsack… you get it. It’s emo, it’s upbeat, it’s stuff to win over crowds in college towns.