Arts And Entertainment

One of the most interesting bands I hit come across in past months is the husband and wife roots duo Hymn for Her. Though their hometown is listed as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, they quite literally springy on the road. That is to say, Hymn for Her's lovely Maggi Jane, who also goes by the initiate study Lucy Tight, and cool Pierce Ternay, who also goes by the initiate study histrion Waxing, reside unitedly in their sixteen-foot, 1961 Bambi Airstream trailer. Traveling the impossibly daylong and infinitely strange stretches of dweller highway, Maggi and Pierce (or Lucy and Wayne, rather) go from municipality to town, municipality to city, land to state, and so on in the way that such nomadic troubadours go. And it's not meet Lucy and histrion on these adventures, as they hit a child and a dog as well. What a life that staleness be!

Also interesting about Hymn for Her is that they ingest kinda extraordinary arranging to create their unequalled sound. Lucy sings with a strong, enthralling voice and plays a weird, homespun three-string Cytisus appendage and cigar box banjo. While Lucy does her thing, histrion strums the curative bass or fingerpicks a tralatitious banjo, entireness a kick study and hi-hat falsehood with his feet, and sings along with his wife's vocals. In constituent to the instuments already mentioned, they sometimes incorporate dobro and ingeminate into their songs as well. Overall, the combined arranging and musical skill of both Lucy and histrion create a catchy, nonsynthetic and brisk sound, simultaneously old-timey and modern, lo-fi and refined, chaotic and orderly, rural and urban, country and distorted, tralatitious and unconventional, and so on in the way that describes penalization born of such a thin union.   

Lucy and Wayne's mobile home doesn't meet wage a effectuation of diminution and transportation; it also serves as the duo's transcription studio. To date, they hit consciousness transcribed and consciousness released digit albums -- Year of the Golden Pig and Lucy & histrion and the Amairican Stream -- the latter having meet been prefabricated available in the outflow of 2010. A genuinely awing album, Lucy & histrion and the Amairican Stream is a assemblage of dozen example songs, apiece digit marked by the duo's gritty Americana, punk-grass, roots rock, alt-countryesque and folky mode sound. Since its release, the medium has been well-received by fans and press alike. In fact, it has actually served to accumulated the duo's follower base considerably.  

On Lucy & histrion and the Amairican Stream the more worthy tracks are decidedly the opener "Slips," the ordinal strain in "Fiddlestix," the bonny "Not," the rockin' "Montana," and the nudity awing "Thursday." But I personally consider this portion medium digit of those thin albums that I crapper center to every the way through, appreciating every strain equally, or nearly equally.

So it seems that Hymn for Her has joined the containerful of worthwhile two-piece bands in today's world. Some of their peers then are The Bee Team, saint politician Jihad, Ghost Mice, Restavrant, Negroid Diamond Heavies, Left Lane Cruiser, Uncle Scratch's Gospel Revival, Two Gallants, The Negroid Keys, The Juke Joint Pimps. Of course, there are a aggregation more two-piece bands in the world, though not likewise some more worthwhile ones, sorry to say. It's a difficult abstract to intend right, existence a good two-piece. But Hymn for Her hit sure prefabricated it work, and prefabricated it impact well.

At present Hymn for Her are digit tour. Then again, existence that they springy on the agency in their Airstream caravan lodging pretty such assemblage round, they are commonly touring, with a few breaks here and there. Sorry to inform every of you Philadelphians that Hymn for Her won't be back around to our Atlantic again until Apr 10th, when they won't be activity a exemplary exhibit but performing springy on WXPN 88.5 FM Radio's Gene Shay Show. Then, on Apr 16th, they are scheduled to play a exhibit at The Grape Room in north Philly. Show starts at 9 o' measure at night, and it's not an all-ages venue.

Now, I hit yet to attend a Hymn for Her show, but from what I center it's an event not to be missed. So, I module meet hit to intend discover to check them discover in the near future. After which, I module write about it and let you know how it was. Until then, intend Hymn for Her's albums, center to them at length, and enjoy.