Monkey Swallows The Universe - The Casket Letters
(Vinyl Junkie/Loose, 2007)
They
might boast a name apparently inspired by a particularly harrowing
chapter of the I Ching, but one spin of Monkey Swallows The Universe’s
second album, The Casket Letters, suggests this band mostly inspired by
matters somewhat less fantastical. That’s not to say either, however,
that these lumpen bloke-rockers are inspired by their fellow
simian-named, Sheffield-born kin, Arctic Monkeys. Rather, Monkey
Swallows The Universe take a quite delightful third way, picking up
acoustic guitars, lap steel and mandolin, cello and penny whistle for a
bright, rustic-sounding suite of folk-rock songs that bloom with bright
melodies and the intimate, English country garden vocals of Nat Johnson.
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9/08/2007 |
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