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Full album stream: Hem
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Out of 30 votes - Similar Artists: Cowboy Junkies, Court & Spark, Alison Krauss
Out of 30 votes
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Genre: Country » Alternative Country
Editor's review
The wide open country-pop stylings that brought attention to the Cowboy Junkies get even more space in this lulling project. Soothing pianos and dusky waves of acoustic guitar join intimate female vocals, casting serious doubt on Hank Jr.'s claim that there's no country values in New York.
Biography
Hem's third studio album, Funnel Cloud , features songs of such carefully crafted, dream-like beauty that it's almost impossible to place exactly where they've come from or even in what era they might have been recorded. You can hear a subtle country twang, the storytelling simplicity of great folk music, a touch of Tin Pan Alley sophistication. They at times recall the emotionally stirring sweep of movie music from an age when the best pictures were shot in Cinemascope and orchestras crowded onto sound stages to perform the scores. These tunes are so immediately involving, sometimes so soothingly familiar, that you'll insist you know them - and love them - already. Hem exists very much in the here and now, but always manages to evoke the timeless. (more on hemmusic.com)
