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The Last Town Chorus

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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 ....

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.

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!

I am in love. Great, great record. Light some candles, have a drink. Get sad, just for a while.