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Review: 'Summer Sleeves'
'In The Throes Of Woe'   

-  Label: 'Jigsaw Records'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '23.4.21.'-  Catalogue No: 'PZL-183'

Our Rating:
This is Summer Sleeves debut album of bedroom indie from Seattle Face Jeremy Charbonneau and ably assisted by Alon Bassok and Mike Oprinski and recorded at home just before the world fell apart in the winter of 19/20 even if calling the album In The Throes Of Woe sounds very much like a mid-pandemic album title.

The album opens with the gently questioning You'll Never Change that has an indie country twang vibe to it, with slight bruised sounding vocals that are certain that the departing lover will never change with a similar feel to New Country Rehab.

Battle Talks takes a familiar early 70's rhythm pattern and overlays it with squiggly guitars and yearning and slightly pained vocals as the argument unfolds.

Walk In The Night has all sorts of things going on around the central tune as the need to take a Walk In The Night is explained and we figure out if you're on your way to a booty call, doing the walk of shame, staggering home drunk or something else entirely, as we wait to find out if you make it home in one piece or not.

Lead Out is slight and in danger of slipping into the background apart from the guitar lines that hold my attention until the organ comes in and lifts things up.

Loose Connections is like the connection between Stan Ridgeway, NRBQ, Rain Parade and patchouli oil. Rest In The Sun is sort of quite plaintive Neil Young filtered through some wonderfully downbeat Daniel Johnston a search for love and redemption it's nicely dappled.

In The Throes Of Woe is a gently baring of the soul and rant against a partner whose playing away and well things are falling apart and the drugs are taking over and your drowning in debt and can see no way forward to a better day or place, nearly bleak enough for Clem Snide.

After the short interlude De Boo comes the albums most obvious single On The Stereo, the one tune you need to hear, a good poppy slice of what they listened too and the emotions it brings out in them, probably not the greatest song of this title mind.

One More Than One Is more of the quietly despairing falling to pieces loves and life has gone to hell pleas over spare low fi indie cry for help.

Hold Me (State Of Mind) is bucolic folk yearning to be held and to feel something again just to give him some comfort as he falls to pieces this is Belle & Sebastian style gentle plea.

Living Room 3am (Everyone's Sleeping) is exactly what the title describes quietly strummed acoustic and vocals trying not to wake anyone up, but secretly hoping they can all hear him anyway and won't be too angry as the intrusion into their night's sleep and then they climb the stairs to bed.

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  author: simonovitch

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