It takes some getting used to, even shocking, when it’s on forever chemicals, the new album of the American band Quiet Hollers synthesizers and modernities emerge. Don’t we especially love their pure, a little languid Americana here in the Netherlands? The folk and country in which frontman Shadwick Wilde’s passionate voice thrives?
The sound is bigger on their fourth album; the drums blast in Why Does Everything Hurt immediately louder and electronically simulated strings hum in the background. Just listen through, because Wilde sings beautifully. In those doowo choirs Happy with you as a setting for Wildes Roy Orbison-esque falsetto, they actually work very well after the initial shock. And that’s how you slowly learn to love this somewhat overproduced album. If only because there are again beautiful lines of text to cling to.
Quiet Hollers
Forever Chemical
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★★★ ☆☆
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