I'm getting the feeling that life in Canada is just too damn pleasant.
Most of the music I've heard from there recently is just so cheery and cheesy that it's like spending a day in a shopping mall. It makes me want to put on some Death Metal to restore the yin-yang balance.
"I don't want to write a song today" sings Eden Oliver on the opening track, No Good Monster but, guess what, she did anyway.
The 13 tracks on this classically trained quartet's third album can't be faulted in terms of the pure four-part harmonies and tuneful acoustic chamber folk arrangements featuring double bass, guitar, mandolin, piano, accordion. But that to me is the root of the problem.
Music has to have some edge to get beyond the deadening niceness that 'perfect' records like this tap into.
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