Album Review - Nathan - Key Principles
On The Boulevard Back Then, the fifth track on Nathan's latest effort
Key Principles, lead singer Keri Latimer imagines a future that looks an
awful lot like the past. There may be no electricity, but "there's
music, talking walls, and next door neighbors, ceiling creaks, and
radiators." The sounds that surround her voice oscillate between
something that is charmingly old-fa****oned and something that is
decidedly post-modern, while the well-placed rattles of percussion that
accent the song lend to it a psychedelic edge that is dark and surreal.
Throughout the rest of the endeavor, too, Nathan juxtaposes past and
present in a refre****ngly seamless fa****on. On Key Principles of
Success, it colors its Dust Bowl reflections with the romantic
atmospherics of a European cafe; it dabbles in the Bakersfield-bred
country of Buck Owens on You Win; and the gently rolling banjo that
underscores The Wind paints an aural depiction of open fields and
farmland in a way that evokes a simpler time. As for the closely knit
harmonies of Latimer and Shelley Marshall, they strive for and achieve
an ethereal, otherworldly beauty that crosses effortlessly from the
Andrews Sisters to the Indigo Girls, from the Carter Family to the Be
Good Tanyas.
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