Author: Mojave 3

Release Date: 05-09-2000

Details: Amazon.ca Neil Halstead and his cohorts have been making their warm, winsome country dream-music since 1995, and Excuses For Travellers, their third album, is their most fully-realised yet. Each song has a quietly lush soundscape and simple poetry. "I stood at the station / With a plan and a packet of poems / Heroically tragic," sings Halstead with self-deprecating perception on the stand-out track "In Love With A View". There is a surreal folk quality to their sound, a sort of Cowboy Junkies meets Elliott Smith, particularly on the appropriately named "When You're Drifting". Here, they perfectly capture the anchorless anomie of the travelling musician. It's not all slow ballads, however, as in the driving optimism and gospel-style chorus of "Got My Sunshine", a song penned by Mojave drummer Ian McCutcheon. --Lucy O'Brien

UPC: 652637000528

EAN: 0652637000528

Languages: Spanish

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood