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 The Milk Carton Kids (from the album The Only Ones available on Milk Carton Records/Thirty Tigers)
Tenderness wraps around the words and music of The Milk Carton Kids on their recent release, The Only Ones. Backing their songs with a full band effort on their last release, The Only Ones returns The Milk Carton Kids to beginnings and to the form they established as an origin for the band. Formed in 2011 with a mission to make ‘quiet music’, the pair went from their Los Angeles base to the world, rising fairly quickly in the musical landscape based on a mastery of harmony along with their intruments, the fragile beauty of their songwriting, and a sly wit that made live performances a multi-media event of story, song, and stand-up. The Only Ones opens cradling a goodbye in a blend of harmony and melody in “I Meant Every Word I Said”, bordering the first cut with album closer “I Was Alive”, TMCK sharing words and music as Kenneth Pattengale strums and tells the tale while Joey Ryan freckles the air with guitar note accents. The production of The Only Ones captures a delicacy of playing, headphones allowing the ability to hear the guitar take breaths before entering the tune. The texture of early albums, songs relying on two partners creating one voice/melody is present in the make-up of The Only Ones. Speaking in the voice of an immigrant, The Milk Carton Kids present “My Name is Ana” as delicate notes flicker over “As the Moon Starts to Rise” and Folk Country spreads out a summer tune, watching the seasons change in the title track. The Milk Carton Kids couple the recording with a tour, kicking off on October 27, 2019 in Washington D.C., keeping the evenings intimate and affordable with all tickets under $20, dubbing the effort A Night with the Milk Carton Kids in Very Small Venues at Very Low Ticket Prices Tour. Coffeehouse Folk fills the musical space of “About the Size of a Pixel” as The Milk Carton Kids pick up the pace in the playing to put an edge, and an exit plan, underneath “I’ll Be Gone”. Listen and buy the music of The Milk Carton Kids from AMAZON http://www.themilkcartonkids.com/
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