The Crane Wives: Safe Ship, Harbored.
Happy Monday morning! Here’s a band for you to keep your eye on. The Crane Wives, a four-piece out of Michigan, primarily feature drums, upright bass, guitar and banjo, and the dual lead vocals of a pair of women. The vocal performances are very now—jazzy, quirky, and angsty—while the overall package ranges from old-fashioned to timeless. Safe Ship, Harbored can be cabaret at times, rockin’ at others, but throughout it run strong currents of both folk and pop. It’s marked by simple, catchy melodies and charming, folksy lyrics, and takes itself neither entirely seriously nor too lightly, with sounds and subject matter that are almost equal parts exuberance, frustration, and sadness.
A really interesting and worthwhile first album—the kind that’s fascinating to look back upon from the tail end of a long catalog but still has plenty to offer on its own.
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