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BOOK CLUB | ONE-WAY MOON
As I sit here listening to it for some innumerable time, I realize I can wax poetic about my interpretations of the record till the cows come home, but I'd prefer to share a few words written by others who put a more fine point on it:
There’s a wistful, unpretentious elegance to Book Club’s sound. At once urbane and downhome, this is modern pastoral pop music that—in sound and spirit—can trace a straight line back to the simple, unaffected roots of American storysong. It’s where Johnny and June meets Lou Reed & Nico, trading twilight songs born of vacant, mostly forgotten kudzu-covered city lots, the spare, arresting two-part harmonies echoing all the way from the Georgia Piedmont to Tin Pan Alley and back again.
On Book Club’s new LP, One-Way Moon (The Cottage Recording Co./Bear Kids Recordings), frontman/songwriter Robbie Horlick practices introspection without navel-gazing, his wounded warble trickling like creekwater past the strum of the nylon six-string and the pluck of the banjo, cascading over daydreamy piano and the breathy moan of bow on strings. Further downstream, his vocal melodies empty into a crystal pool where they swirl gently, endlessly, around the wholesome, charmingly demure voice of harmony singer Rachel Buckley. The whole affair is a dazzling exercise in restraint—a stripped-bare, acoustic album where what you don’t hear is just as important as what you do.
Link to the album here, and if you like what you hear, definitely check out their previous record Ghost and killer EP, Shapes on the Water here or here. Also, if you're a vinyl junkie like myself, there's a limited edition run of 250 hand-numbered, gold-foiled, milky clear with black splattered vinyl which I had the pleasure of creating.
really enjoying it: the different voices and the little differences in the album but yet one recognizable style
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