The Handsome Family - Last Days Of Wonder

The familiar yet fresh Handsome Family are at it again on Last Days of Wonder. Husband and wife team Brett (music) and Rennie (lyrics) Sparks utilize most of the same elements as on their previous 10 years of recorded output, right down to the chintzy nature calendar artwork. But their stylistic consistency isn't due to lack of ideas, but rather an unwavering commitment to their best strengths: Brett's melodic country-politan and dust-bowl cowboy tunes written around Rennie's realistically creepy and creepily realistic narratives.

Although their entire catalog this far is remarkably solid, Last Days of Wonder probably one-ups its predecessors as a consistent band's most consistent album. The themes that thread their way through the record turn up in every song, from the slow disintegration of inventor Nicola Tesla in Tesla's Hotel Room to the central image of a drive-through fast-food transaction on Somewhere Else to Be. ~ Full Review at PopMatters

Track Listing :

• Your Great Journey
• Telsa's Hotel Room
• These Golden Jewels
• After We Shot The Grizzly
• Flapping Your Broken Wings
• Beautiful William
• All The Time In Airports
• White Lights
• Bowling Alley Bar
• Hunter Green
• Our Blue Sky
• Somewhere Else To Be

Find out more at the Handsome Family's website