Hold Yer Horses - Piney Gir

Advantages: Loving crafted, genre transcending gem of an album
Disadvantages: Don't be put off by it being "country".

Piney Gir is a London-based musician originally from Kansas. She had/has many musical projects, including an all-girl band called The Schla La Las (http://www.myspace.com/theschlalalas), now sadly "dead". Her debut album Peakahokahoo was electronic in sound, and experiments with country versions of songs of that album gave us The Piney Gir Country Roadshow and this album, Hold Yer Horses. I have to tell you, it certainly surprised me at that ...
...at all. Say "country music" to me and I think of Billy Ray Cyrus and Kenny Rogers and run a mile. Maybe game for a Dolly Parton sing-along when I'm verrrrry drunk.... but you get the idea. I like mostly like metal and dark electronic music. Yet this album makes me want to put on a flouncy gingham dress and a glittery cowboy hat and get drunk enough to dance and sing along. It's so lovingly made, so contagious, and so damned catchy, that I defy anyone ... Read review