- Label: 'Last Night From Glasgow'
- Genre: 'Folk'
- Release Date: '7.11.25.'
Our Rating:
Every time I look at this duo's name Xan & Dusty I do a double take, wishing it was a new album by 80's cowpunk legends Danny & Dusty off on another Lost Weekend, this album is a whole lot soberer and less raucous, but wonderful in many other ways. Xan Tyler Is now based in Scotland a long way from her Death Bang Party roots and Dusty Stray who was born in Taiwan and grew up in Texas is now over in Amsterdam.
The album opens with The End Of A New Beginning a breathy yet grizzled start of a second chance to get your love together, harmonies coming together to eradicate loneliness, with lush lovely country folk stylings.
Sweet Freedom is slow folk love for the devil that comes to rescue you from your wandering ways. It feels like Xan is whispering words in your ears to make you stick around for a little bit more. Home has Dusty wondering how much bother he'll be in, if he doesn't come Home at some point, hopefully before despair sets in or they get too many comparisons to Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou.
The sparse cover of The End Of The World, the Skeeter Davis classic, is all hushed beauty slow plucked ukulele and gentle harmonies, for the sad and lonely heartbreak at the centre of this.
Mine has Everybody's Talking style walking guitar picking, but with slow spoken conversational vocals, trying to get to the heart of why you should be Mine and Mine alone, will that really be the case.
All Around Me the vultures are circling upset by the slow jangly guitars and wistful vocal's keeping this love affair alive.
I Should Have Said are the things you contemplated saying, just before the end of the world, but failed to say before he jumped on a train and left her to her wistful meanderings, until she finds which stop the story should end at.
So Soon is carefree picked guitar, asking if you still think of them now, they are gone. Last Words is a slow plucked elegy full of sadness and regret for that not so fond farewell, pick those Last Words carefully.
The album closes with a super slow hushed and wonderful re-imagining of True Love Will Find You In The End the Daniel Johnston much covered classic, the total opposite of Antlered Auntlord's version that was the last version I reviewed. I hope any Daniel Johnston collectors will love this version.
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