The Sadies
Northern Passages
Yep Roc
Feb 28, 2017 Web Exclusive
Hard-hitting, electric garage-a-billy rounds out the sweet panged steel and prophetic pluckiness of The Sadies’ Northern Passages. From the blissed-out inclusivity of “Riverview Fog,” to the nice-by-way-of-curt “There Are No Words,” we are won over equally. They’re a rough-and-tumble front, folding into a palpable lollygag of steel guitar garnering us into their glowing ring.
“It’s Easy (Like Walking)” features Kurt Vile playing into plentiful harmonies. Mangled, cachexic guitars, bones and breath, draw deeply and steadily as if they are undoing every joint that existed in the human body while simultaneously sustaining them. “The Elements Song” is all nasal air and world-weariness, an alt-country coconut festooned in the brink of a breakthrough. Northern Passages is The Sadies’ Aurora Borealis, or at least the way back through it. And the light is just a little more brilliant, the sky just a little more cerulean because of it. (www.thesadies.net)
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