the lone bellow

​The Lone Bellow (from the album Half Moon Light available on Dualtone Music)
The Lone Bellow has established Gospel Folk as ‘a thing’. The style does not overtake Half Moon Light, the latest release from The Lone Bellow, the inspirational feel dominates the album. Though as spirituals, these tunes may never be heard at a Sunday morning service, and the recording may be a little forward thinking for Folk traditions, however Half Moon Light proves that the genres can be next door neighbors, swapping styles like gossip over a back fence or bar stool. Twenty-seven seconds of a church piano intro leads the way in to the tender "I Can Feel You Dancing", the track giving way to "Good Times”, where The Lone Bellow prove an ability to make some noise, the tempo building into the second half of the tune is punctuated with guitar and horns.
Like many of the cuts on Half Moon Light, "Wash it Clean" begins with whispered tones that add to the sad lonely that accompanies a line like ‘all my life I tried to let you go’. Kanene Donehey Pipkin's vocals are soulful on "Just Enough to Get By" while the layered harmonies of “Martingales” dole out the advice, ‘if yesterday is too heavy, put it down’. The heartbreaker of Half Moon Light is based on the true tale of a mother and child separated at the border; "Illegal Immigrant" speaking words from the mother’s press conference plea, ‘here I am, you'll never be alone again’. It is an all too real tale in these much too real times. The gospel feel comes from the rich layered choral harmonies of The Lone Bellow, and with an "Intro," "Interlude" and "Finale" there is a story concept to Half Moon Light, giving the whole melancholic, emotionally rich dramatic tone of a record a beginning, middle and ending. 
 
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