The Last Town Chorus

The Last Town Chorus | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 24, 2003)
• Original Release Date: February 24, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: The Last Town Chorus
• ASIN: B00008DI07
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #371,247 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Village Voice, November 6, 2002

I've played their new self-titled debut to death.

Product Description

The Last Town Chorus lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is led by the singular voice and haunting lap steel playing of Megan Hickey. The debut album, called 'a hypnotic wonder' by the BBC, has slowly crept around the globe based on listener and critical affection. "Exquisitely mournful... that they can address the pleasures of urban life, while sounding so utterly dislocated from it, is what makes the Last Town Chorus so unusually poignant"

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Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The Last Town Chorus, March 27, 2006

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Ben Beeke (Kalamazoo, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Town Chorus (Audio CD)

Listen to the lonely. The Last Town Chorus is a slow-burning, country-gothic album from singer, lap steel musician, and songwriter Megan Hickey, with guitarist and songwriting partner Nat Guy. Comparisons to the Stanley Brothers are obvious, but the sound is more modern and cinematic, the sound of a noir movie set in a desert town. Megan takes all the vocal duties and sings meaningfully and without flourish beyond crescendos and decrescendos, with an effect similar to the lap-steel's reverb and delay. I'm not sure that there's a vocal note shorter than a half-measure. The lyrics, thus presented, take repeated, attentive listening to stick - they sound like mourning, but read like longing. It's worth owning, to mine at your own pace ....

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brooklyn is Lucky, February 25, 2003

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kgretalove (The Lowcountry) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Last Town Chorus (Audio CD)

I heard these guys live on WFMU 2/24/03 and fell in love. They are dreamy. Their sound is a cleaner & quieter Mazzy Star, but moody just the same. Buy it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Debut!, February 28, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Last Town Chorus (Audio CD)

The moody and beautiful music of the Last Town Chorus is not to be missed. Like every other first album by someone who shoots to stardom you can tell they are at the beginning of a major artistic journey.
Buy it now so you can say "I heard them before you" at hipster cocktail parties for years to come.
Simply put this album will disintegrate to dust in your CD player from the amount of times it MUST be played.
It's alternative, country, ethereal music from angels.
A MUST HAVE!