kacy and clayton carrying on

Kacy & Clayton (from the album Carrying On available on New West Records)
A dreamy texture envelopes the title track for Carrying On, the recent release from Kacy & Clayton, the pair joining in the singalong chorus advice as Kacy vocalizes her fears in somber observations that form verses. The beat gallops, mellowing when “Intervention” eases the rage of its character as the morning light wakens from its nightly sleep of death on the dark Country of “Spare Me Over One More Year”. Musically, Kacy & Clayton manage to honor multiple influences yet never brand any of their melodies with a defining sonic brand.
 
The ability of Kacy & Clayton to be those musical chameleons, adapting to the songs like the colors of the lizard change to fit each environment, is what drew producer Jeff Tweedy (Wilco, Mavis Staples) to the pair. Jeff recalled that ‘when I first heard Kacy & Clayton, I was struck by how much detail and nuance they had absorbed from what sounded like a large swath of my record collection. When I told them that they were as good as the artists they were drawing from, I’m not sure they believed me. On this record I don’t hear those influences as much as I hear them taking the things they love so intimately and telling their own story. I think they’re a truly great band’. Weaving wisdom and experiential advice into the world around them, Kacy & Clayton face fall and early winter on “The South Saskatchewan River” as they swirl in a memory searching for a name in “Providence Place” and sing of settling as they look for a cowboy on “The Forty Ninth Parallel”. Carrying On spits out notes for the ragged rhythms guiding “High Holiday” and waltzes to “That Sweet Orchestra Sound” as Kacy & Clayton sadly spin on the same steps for the family history of “Mom and Dad’s Waltz #2”.
 
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http://www.kacyandclayton.com/
 

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