Rolling Golden Holy [Limited Blue Galaxy]

Description

On their second album as a trio, Anas Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman build fresh narratives from the fabled history of folk music.

The songs onRolling Golden Holytrace a variety of love stories, with Mitchell and Johnson trading off leads like they do perspectives. Gone by Fall reflects on love that will end when the seasons change. The songs brightly plucked guitar contrasts the sorrow ruminating at its center. Johnson takes lead vocals, while Mitchells soft touches add flourishes of nostalgic sweetness, as though the present were already a potent memory. Exile declares grandiose passions in an effort to win back a lover. Johnsons and Mitchells voices plait in and around one another. You know Id fly right into the eye of the hurricane for you, they sing against a fluttering banjo, while Mike Lewis bass and JT Bates drums juxtapose that soaring interplay with a grounded heft.

Pitchfork