There’s something going on here. Uniformity isn’t necessarily needless but the ‘Creek are plugging it something rotten. Post Azure Ray and it’s as you were for Maria Taylor, albeit more along the Jenny Lewis lines.
Synthesised, sensitivity reigns supreme, and the, Rilo Kiley, god fearing hicks-but-not-actually-hicks vibe is abundant. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it could apply, but you have to grow, no? Flogging a dead horse and all that.
Problem is, this horse lives on. There’s beauty in Taylor’s vocals and it’s perfect self-deprecating ex-boyfriend/girlfriend music. Clean Getaway has ‘O.C. credits’ written all over it and the beats and melodies on Irish Goodbye will keep dirt and harmonies in vogue.
From that perspective it’s a success - but where’s the goddamn subversive-ness gone? The horse needs to die, then we can all start afresh.
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