Grackles (from the album Grackles

Grackles (from the album Grackles

Grackles (from the album Grackles available on Yes Country for Old Men Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Grackles could score a tango dance, Surf video, or dark, noir-heavy film. On their self-titled release they drop a tittle twang, plenty of reverb-heavy guitar, and lots of music ripe for a dimly lit lounge. Loaded with subtle, Blues undertones with a  darkness amongst the down-trodden Roots vibe, darkness that equals greatness.
There’s a tripped out, Jam Band-feel in the opener “It’s Coming To Ya” before they move into an experimental blues realm with the help of Charlie Musselwhite and his harp in “San Antone”. “Near or Too Far” is laidback coolness, “The Distant Lightning” is an animated Folk cut, and “Top of the World” with Kat Edmonson (whose added harmonies are flat out wonderful) is a tripped out dream thanks to the angelic background vocals, wandering piano and ambient pedal steel that makes the song float. They then drop a Punk and Boogie cut in “Grackles Barn Burner”, Edmonson’s voice, along with those sublime harmonies return in the hopeful Folksiness of “Far Away From Nothing,” and Grackles close the album with the sad and dramatic “Send Back the Roses”.
Fans of the music of Murder By Death, the now late and always great Dexter Romweber, and anything lumped as “The Denver Sound” will dig on Grackles. Beautifully somber, this is a package to file under dark psychedelia, Roots-noir. (by Bryant Liggett)
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