![]() ![]() Buckley, however, is an all-rounder, not a strict stylist, equally capable of turning in a one-mic, one-take heartworn country ballad in the shape of ‘Beautiful Regret’ or an intimate jazz vocal on the torch song ‘Seven Red Rose Tattoos’, accompanied by sonorous piano and Byron Wallen’s mute trumpet. In a blind tasting, you could easily mistake this for a Laura Marling song. Butler fl aunts his love of Bert Jansch’s dexterous melodic picking with his scurrying acoustic blues guitar on ‘Babylon Days’, while Buckley’s rich alto duets with Alice Zawadzki’s folky violin parts. ‘Twenty Years A-Growing’ is inspired by Maurice O’Sullivan’s memoir, set in Buckley’s home county of Kerry, though musically its moody, bendy bass and acid guitar evoke Californian psych blues, while the soulful roots piano ballad ‘Shallow The Water’ takes its title from a poem by Tim Buckley (not that Tim, but Jessie’s dad). The duo are unapologetic in mining their literary and artistic infl uences throughout the album.
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