angus & julia stone - Down The Way
Australian siblings Angus and Julia Stone return for a second album, following 2007's A Book Like This, which garnered impressive commercial and critical success in its homeland, only to receive further acclaim from UK critics when it was finally issued in Europe the following year. Down The Way finds the folk-rock duo taking turns to front the album's songs, with Julia's voice proving especially resonant. Whenever you encounter this brother-and-sister's music mentioned in print you can expect to read comparisons between Julia and artists like The Cranes' Alison Shaw, ex-Múm singer Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir and Emiliana Torrini along with various other distinctive female larynxes. She's probably at her best fronting the buoyant, brass-driven 'And The Boys' or sweet ballads like 'For You', but let's not neglect Angus here: 'Yellow Brick Road' guns for a halfway ground between Neil Young and Fleetwood Mac, while the slightly juvenile, lyrical naivety of 'Big Jet Plane' doesn't detract from the fact that it's the album's biggest hook.
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