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The Redlands Palamino Company
- Take Me Home
(Laughing Outlaw)
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| Ah, remember the good old days when life was simple and childhood had not yet been corrupted by violent video games? |
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“We built dens and climbed the highest trees… We swam in the sea but we were home for tea,” declare The Redlands Palomino Company, without apparent irony, in ‘Coastline’, a melodic ode to a sickeningly wholesome childhood where the sun always shone and television was banned by parents who probably cried when Dylan went electric.
Musically as well as lyrically, Take Me Home is an album bathed in the rosy glow of nostalgia. From the wistfully folky ‘Coastline’ to the mournful American country that prevails elsewhere, the songs stay close to their roots and are traditional in sound and structure. On ‘Please Come Running’, for example, we have the kind of wailing guitar that instantly implies tough but lonesome men are somewhere slumped on bar stools drinking bourbon straight up.
Husband and wife singers Hannah and Alex Elton-Wall have voices perfectly suited to the band’s style — attractive and tuneful but with a melancholy catch in the throat. The female vocal fits particularly well with the harmonicas and heartbreak of ‘Harbour Lights’, while the male goes all husky and a bit rock’n’roll in ‘Pick Up, Shut Up’, which features a driving rhythm section and even throws in a guitar solo.
Take Me Home is accomplished at what it does and very easy to listen to but it can hardly be said to be taking any great leaps forward – rather it has its gaze fixed determinedly over its shoulder. |
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| Priscilla McClay - 4/10 |
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