lilly hiatt walking proof

​Lilly Hiatt (from the album Walking Proof on New West Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
The gentle electric guitar that kicks off Walking Proof, the latest release from Lilly Hiatt, proves to be pleasantly deceiving. That gentle strumming gives way to some stabbing guitar that rears its head again and again throughout the album, pushing Walking Proof into rough-around-the-edges Indie Rock territory. It is a great soundscape to explore and live in, giving the music an extra punch that electric Folk sometimes needs to Rock. 
Album opener, “Rae”, sings about that friend that brings out the best in you, helping you ‘throw caution to the wind and don’t give a damn’. It is a light and airy cut that gives way to the guitar riffs opening “P-Town”, where Lilly Hiatt tells a tale of what seems to be a doomed trip to the Northwest U.S. though she does dish out the line of the year in ‘don’t you hate when people say it is what it is?’. “Some Kind of Drug” has guitar nodding to post-Hardcore experimental Punk while “Candy Lunch” and the title track, the former with trading Pedal Steel and electric guitar leads, the latter with fiddle riffs and Folk with just the right amount of jangle.  Lilly Hiatt has created a sing-along space on Walking Proof’s strongest cut when she sings ‘the boys downstairs, they got the record on, they know all the words, to my favorite song’. The track, “Never Play Guitar”, harkens to the mid-90’s when Alt Country was becoming a bigger thing and Punk Rock flirted with Country Roots sounding like a marriage between The Jayhawks and Alex Chilton. Album closer, “Scream”, is an ambient and dreamy, a fitting end to a record where Lilly Hiatt musically goes where she claims ‘I ain’t slowing down for nobody’.  (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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