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Album Reviews
Album Review: Georgia’s Horse – The Mammoth Sessions (Fire Records)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 1 June 2009
There are definite echoes of She & Him’s Zooey Deschanel in Georgia’s Horse frontwoman Teresa Maldonado’s vocals, though her’s are not, perhaps, so prim, and certainly not as light hearted. Far closer to PJ Harvey and the dark, alt-country gothica of Castanets, Texas-based Georgia’s Horse are yet another band to conjure up the eerie, haunted sounds of New Weird America. ‘The Mammoth Sessions’, the band’s debut LP, embodies that genre from the first song to the last, but unfortunately fails to make much of a lasting impression. Motionless, echoing and stagnant, ‘The Mammoth Sessions’ rolls through the freak-folk motions, and is relaxing and melodic at best, perhaps best suited for a lazy afternoon with a book rather than any sort of active listening. Gems amongst the dusty grey fog include the resonating, Cat Power-esque ‘As It Stops Raining’ and the livelier ‘Baron Samedi’. My instinct is that ‘The Mammoth Sessions’ is a grower and should definitely not be dismissed – but as far as bringing the world of music anything new and exciting, it unfortunately falls a mile or two short. TW
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