Advantages: Well-crafted songs telling poignant tales; great musicianship; evocative pedal steel Disadvantages: None to speak of
"Post to Wire" is Richmond Fontaine's fifth studio album and the one that really turned me onto the band. Previously the Portland-based quartet were associated with dark, brooding lyrics and a much blacker feel, but "Post to Wire" really highlights not just the band's ability to compose across genres but the strengths of songwriter and frontman, Willy Vlautin, in creating vivid snapshots of the contemporary west. Labelled "Americana" or "alt-country" ... ...pigeonhole, the band have developed the genre, and cemented their position in it, where the likes of Uncle Tupelo or Wilco left off. By more use of the pedal steel, the band has taken more of a country direction but Vlautin's stories of people living ordinary lives on the margins of society have ensured the band stay firmly on the alternative side of country. Fans and critics alike have suggested that Vlautin writes the songs that Raymond Carver ...
fizzytom 06.05.2008
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