STACK #198 Apr 2021

MUSIC REVIEWS

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Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird These 13

Carla Geneve Learn To Like It At just 22 years of age,

The Soul Movers Evolution When you were a wee nipper, perhaps your first live music

The Pink Stones Introducing... The Pink Stones So many people have discovered a love of country music through the works of Gram Parsons – just like Hunter Pinkton, which set him in a new direction from the punk rock he was previously diggin’. Bringing together a bunch of musician friends including John Neff (Drive By Truckers), Pinkton ditched his idea of operating as a lone singer-songwriter to form the band The Pink Stones. From Athens, Georgia, this is pure Cosmic Americana. On their debut album they’ll rope you in and take you on a trip of swirling, psychedelic, '60s gritty rock and honky tonk. This is an album of fresh new country sounds from another era – for today, man. (NewWest) Denise Hylands

Carla Geneve has become a much-talked about emerging act beyond her small town in Albany in Western Australia. With a singular voice and a gift for storytelling, Learn To Like It is a debut record that is fully realised – unafraid to bare its soul or reveal deeply intimate moments. The album is largely concerned with the breakdown of a relationship – from being reminded of a person first thing in the morning on Residue , through to starting over again on I Never Noticed the Weight . Wise beyond her years, there’s no doubt Geneve will shortly go from being 'one to watch' to a

Jimbo Mathus and Andrew Bird’s friendship started some 25 years ago, when Mathus brought Bird in on some projects with his band the Squirrel Nut Zippers. With time and distance between them they set about, often through text, to create these 13 songs. In the works since 2018, the album spotlights these two exceptional musicians recalling their inspirations of Charley Patton, Mississippi Sheiks and The Carter Family in songs that have the old- time nostalgia of country, blues and gospel. Recorded live to analogue tape – with both singing and playing on opposite sides of a lone RCA 44 microphone – this is a collaboration that displays their true love for real American folk music. (CookingVinyl) Denise Hylands

experience was The Wiggles. When beloved ex-Red Wiggle Murray Cook was a wee nipper, his first-ever show was Daryl Braithwaite's legendary band Sherbet – and so things come full circle on the fourth album from Cook's excellent soul-rock project The Soul Movers, Evolution , produced by Sherbet's iconic keys player Garth Porter. Fronted by the fearless pipes of Lizzie Mack – who conjures the kind of radiant, effortless vocal abandon of Kate Pierson or Marie Fredriksson while proving her dynamism on the record's soft-rock moments – Evolution is a moreish elixir of energetic, retro spirit which will have you moving with more unabashed bliss than you ever did during Hot Potato . (ABC/Universal) ZKR

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