Posts Tagged “Withered Hand”
For their second annual mini-fest celebrating local talent, the promoters of Retreat! crammed as many of their favourite bands into a single day as possible. The Skinny turned to shift work to cover this year’s event. Read the first part, by Lauren Mayberry at The Skinny’s website With the early shift at an end, Milo McLaughlin picked [...]
After the rollicking full band sing-along of first EP Religious Songs, this second EP showcases the more reflective side of Withered Hand’s Dan Willson, here performing solo with a beautifully restrained multi-instrumental accompaniment by King Creosote, who also produced. The same endearingly fragile delivery and razor sharp one-liners remain, but this time around the emotional clout [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these. Though I write/blog quite regularly about music I sometimes find it difficult to get excited about it these days, perhaps because the bands I like are getting so much positive coverage elsewhere in the blogosphere already (and on more prominent platforms than [...]