This is easily one of the most beautiful albums by anybody in this century or the last.  Being compared to the Indigo Girls and Simon & Garfunkle is pretty righteous, but these guys can hold their own.  "What Was Wrong" is my favorite cut, but there's not a lemon in the bunch.  "Seven Sisters" and "Angel" are particularly awesome and "Worst Enemy" is wry and clever.  In fact, there's a lot of wryness and cleverness here.  Being an old fart, I can't help but think I detect some resonance from Don McLean, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and Jackson Browne.  This album is haunting, poignant, upbeat and achingly beautiful.  It gets in your head and you have to play it over and over.  I'm playing it right now, in fact!
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Storyhill have been around for quite some time. They have given us CD’s with both up and downs in the quality in the past. If I could pick out the best tracks from the backcatalogue of Storyhill and the soloalbums they’ve done it would be a tremendous album. Therefore it’s really fun to hear the new album that is easily their best album to date all through. Musically we’re somewhere between the sweet powerpop of Rembrandts combined with a little more singer songwriter-edge a’la Simon & Garfunkel and William Brothers. Add also a tiny little Nashville vibe and we’re quite ahead. It’s a very good combination and the album is filled with pearls like second out “What Was Wrong” that smells Rembrandts a long way, “Angel” that is a beautiful ballad that smells a Lanois production a long way and the up-tempo track “Soon” with a nice refrain, lovely harmonyvocals and a sweeping steelguitar painting the picture a little bit. All in all – a very pleasant CD, and as I said earlier, the best Storyhill album to date. Easily.
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