Glorytellers
Atone
(CD / LP / Download - 28156-2)
Total Running Time: 34:56 minutes (approx)
Track listing:
- The Lost Half Mile
- Fours
- Concaves
- Just What I Was Thinking
- The Keystone
- Softly As She Sings
- Hawaiian Sunshine
- Omni Stars
- Coldest War
Atone reaches into all corners of Americana; Echoes of Harry Nilsson's “Everybody's Talkin'” reverberate through “The Keystone,” as Farina narrates a train ride through the decaying mining towns of Pennsylvania. The acoustic and electric guitars on “Concaves” are woven together like twin fiddles. Matt Pond recently described the deftly-fingerpicked “Just What I Was Thinking” as ‘Bluegrass Morrissey’. There is even a bawling Walter Horton-style Marine Band that punctuates the bluesy “Softly as She Sings.” But for all its pre-punk influences, Glorytellers have their feet firmly planted in 80s and 90s indie music: Had they been plugged into 100-watt Marshall amps, the guitars on “Fours” and “Omni Stars” would be at home on a Pitchfork or New Radiant Storm King record, and the six-plus minutes of “The Coldest War” seethe and simmer like Karate's best album-ending epics.
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