Cheekbone Hollows (Pop 1 / 2 Life) [EP]

The Childballads | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 15, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Label: Gypsy Eyes Records
• ASIN: B0014WYGM6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #463,047 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Pop Half Life Gets to Rockin' and Rollin' Stones, May 20, 2009

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M. Swinney "Marc My Words" (Flower Mound, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cheekbone Hollows (Pop 1 / 2 Life) (Audio CD)

The Child Ballads on 2008's "Cheekbone Hollows," EP comes across like a little old school Rolling Stones with some Mick-ish male vocals interspersed with country cool female twang and smoky gin soaked chords. The end effect is quite nice really.

Track one, "Cheekbone Hollow," kicks in eventually with a Keith Richards style country blues guitar riff and this tune easily becomes the EP's highlighted centerpiece. Main band force, singer, Steve Lupton's lyrics come across as Dandy Warhols cool but add layers of intellect and cadenced poetry on top of that. "If your heart goes boom / my heart goes boom too / We walk into the room and all the wallpaper comes in blue / we up and moved the garden in the bedroom / and had tea and crumpets like a bride and groom"

And then there's keyboardist Betsy Wright, countrified coo of a voice and you have a mixture of male and female sounds just like a Kim Deal - Francis Black pairing, however the Child Ballads' Lupton rarely strays from his Mick Jagger-Courtney Taylor mash-up of a voice...no manic screaming here.

If you dug the Stones in their country blues best and appreciate some of the psychedelia of The Dandy Warhols or Brian Jonestown Massacre, you'll be liking the Child Ballads, "Cheekbone Hollows." --mmw