This is the first album from the Sacramento outfit Oh Lonesome Ana, who take inspiration from their beloved friend Johnny Allen and adapt his words to a deeply personal listen that addresses childhood trauma. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe Dirt Road\u201d opens the listen with dense guitar and expressive singing, before pretty vocal harmonies populate the slow burning hint of alt-country. \u201cThe Slow Death Of Lung Cancer\u201d follows, and picks up the pace with breezy melodies and some playful guitar crunch alongside scrappy drumming that’s meticulous.<\/p>\n
The middle tracks offer the warm, even soothing, \u201cI’ve Got Your Blood,\u201d where the soulful backing vocals make for a cautious climate, while \u201cI’m Glad You Got Out (But I Miss You)\u201d recruits spirited organ before shifting into a jangly folk-rocker. \u201cNo Kind Of God,\u201d one of the album’s best, then gets quite rugged, but still retains much beauty as the lush landscape welcomes very articulate wordplay.<\/p>\n
The title track arrives near the end, and is full of slow-burning intimacy that\u2019s poetic and full of thoughtful indie-rock on the softer side of the spectrum, and \u201cTo Feel So Small (Hello Me, It\u2019s Me Again)\u201d exits with some firm bursts of alt-rock flavor sprinkled across the bare moments of sublime musicianship. <\/p>\n
The band consists of Ashley Maiden (bass guitar, vocals), Evan Bailey (guitar, keyboards, percussion), Jacob Bradford (guitar) and Zach Peach (drums, percussion). Additionally, Rachael McElhiney (vocals), Graham Farrow Knibb (vocals) and Farrow and the Peach (handclaps) are in attendance too, and it makes for a very moving listen that, although often dark in subject matter, is also catchy, tuneful and very relatable.<\/p>\n
An excellent starting point, it will be interesting to see what these creative, thoughtful Northern Californians come up with next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10811],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-46534","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-oh-lonesome-ana","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46534"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}