Small Town Boredom – Autumn Might Have Hope

There are no bona-fide stand out tracks as such, but that’s more down to the coherence of the album as a whole. Having said that For Today I Missed the Dawn Break is beautiful song, the simple guitar melody sounds like something which I’ve known for years. It’s more than that though, it’s the whole atmosphere which pervades the track, it’s smoky air of drunken confession is heart wrenching in a way that words on a computer screen can’t entirely capture, it’s certainly far more than the sum of it’s parts. These kinds of little flourishes such as the macabre spoken word intro of Sympathy for the Drowning or the delicate tribal like percussion on Elder Park & All That Followed lift this album out of it’s dank depression and inject it with a playfulness which makes the dusty lo-fi miserabilia even more affecting. This is an album which seems to have gone criminally under appreciated, and I’d thoroughly recommend tracking it down before the second album, due later this year.