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Review: 'Comerford, Thomas'
'Introverts'   

-  Label: 'Bandcamp'
-  Genre: 'Alt/Country' -  Release Date: '18.6.21.'

Our Rating:
Introverts is the new album by Chicago country singer Thomas Comerford who sounds like he has spent time out in the wilds between Chicago and Kenosha or even as far afield as Madison. Much of this album would sound perfect to be heard while cruising up the roads that goes from Chicago to Madison or Milwaukee at the start of Autumn.

The Album opens with Not Like Anyone Else which of course it very much is a familiar sound and in this case it's a gentle indie sound with guitars that splinter like Galaxie 500 with far more downbeat vocals that are like a less doom-laden John Murry, than like Galaxie 500, that makes this a cool opening song and I love all the squiggly guitar bits that it has.

Cowboy Mouth may or may not follow the story line of the Sam Shepherd and Patti Smith play either way this is a rather pretty laid-back country blues with some cool effects and a real sense of longing.

Three Sisters takes me back to standing in front of the desk Chekov wrote Three Sisters on in Yalta many years ago, even if this isn't evocative of the Ukraine, being far more solidly from the American heartlands almost like the action unfolds in and around the Cheese Castle in Kenosha as some pained hope for love and affection from the Three Sisters who have denied him that love slowly unfolds.

Onion City I assume is about Wisconsin even if it doesn't have any of the swamps Thomas sings about, but is where I first picked up a copy of the Onion back in the pre-website print only days. It has an odd yet really quite fitting backing, this is gentle and quite romantic with some cool imagery in the almost beat poetry style lyrics.

Partners is a doomed love duet with Beth Yates this has a nicely downbeat almost off-key drumming as the pain comes through even as they sing "we will win" as they plan there escape to never be found as they search around the shores of Lake Geneva or something like that.

Spacetime So Small is very chilled out and laid-back song that needs to be heard in the middle of the night as you're drifting together trying to work out what the background sounds are apart from a gently distorting guitar line that leads into the albums key guitar break, you may need to rewind the selector to hear this a few times.

The Method is a song of renewal and survival getting over addiction and pain and working out why you keep doing what you've been doing as the pulsing laid back music helps you heal.

The album closes with Bet Wrong a song that questions the motives and morals of whoever wrote the bible, so this song could be controversial apart from the fact that he's asking for a better world and a church that's honest and helps us, with Beth Yates backing vocals being tracked into a choir up in the gods as they sing about taking change from a plastic cup.

Find Out More at https://thomascomerford.bandcamp.com/album/introverts

https://www.facebook.com/comerford.thomas



  author: simonovitch

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