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“It’s ingredients are few—sexy, gritty male vocals, some sweetly sung co-ed harmonies, nimbly finger-picked acousti-blues guitar, restrained (if any) percussion—but its magic is palpable. Perhaps it’s due to the intimacy of recording on an 8-track, but though every song is reminiscent of one you’ve heard before, they have a sense of immediacy and audible grit. It actually sounds as if you’re hearing them from inside the studio as they are being taped. The vocals are recorded at such close range that they are almost tinny, and you can practically visualize Morrison and Lortz brushing their lips against the microphones as they sing. Instead of Pro Tools perfection, there is an organic grunginess to the production that comes from the voices bleeding into the guitars and the guitars, in turn, spilling into the brassy tambourines.”—Pitchfork

“One of the most anticipated albums of the year was released this week in the form of the debut foot-long from Seattle’s much adored, The Dutchess And The Duke, on Hardly Art Records. If you were as blown back as we were at the impression left by their debut 7” on Boom Boom last fall, the album fully lives up to those high expectations, and proves that this circle of old friends can not only make a proper folk rock sound work in the 7” single format, but equally smack out a home run of an album without so much as even getting their clothes wrinkled. Although this record isn’t exactly prime for the proverbial house party, nor is it weird enough to be the soundtrack to your twisted inner daydreams, it’s one hell of an impressive album that tows the line few rock’n’rollers can compete with in these modern times. The songs are nothing short of honest, vulnerable, and unwavering, and it’s absence of fun and nihilism is made up with the cold reality of pain and misery within, and builds itself into a chest-tightening benchmark of the miracle of what rock’n’roll can do to a person.”—Victim of Time

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