Our Husband – ‘Villages’ (mp3)
Our Husband is a new side limb for Nathaniel Morse of Adelaide band Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! and Freya Adele formerly of now defunct act Bing Goes to Monaco.
Woodland hymnals for melody lines, tangles of glistening guitar, Villages carves another elegant figure into the realm of narcoticised folk-pop.
Freya’s spectral vocals add to the thoughtful construction of this track, leaving you feeling as if you’ve had your head immersed in a jar of liquid hydrogen for a week.
Villages works as a solid opening track, but seems incomplete in it’s wider narrative scheme. Our Husband’s debut will be released later on in the year, so for now, this has to suffice on repeat. If you’re into Beach House, you’ll like this.
Definitely giving Big Scary a run for their money on my list of top local acts this year so far.
July 21, 2010 5:25 pm
this is beautiful.
July 21, 2010 6:54 pm
this is something else. really, really like it.
July 21, 2010 8:54 pm
There’s also a live recording of a pretty lovely song called ‘Bask’ herebouts: http://therange.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/interview-and-performance-our-husband/
(I definitely need to see these guys play more)
July 21, 2010 11:44 pm
Fire! Santa Rosa, Fire! are from Adelaide, along with Bing Goes To Monaco (who aren’t together anymore).
Nathaniel is originally from Melbourne but now resides here.
Wikipedia taught me all I know.
Great song.
July 22, 2010 1:38 am
I miss Bing, those harmonies were fantastic.
July 26, 2010 3:02 am
bliss pop?
i have no idea what the hell that is, but i’ll be damned if i ain’t fond it it!
4 stars
July 27, 2010 4:44 am
hmmm, tough call on the big scary thing. haven’t seen these guys / gals live yet, so will wait before putting my foot in it. cool tune
August 1, 2010 6:48 pm
quite enjoying the laser beam vocal production on this one
December 2, 2010 7:05 pm
Dude. Wow!
February 24, 2011 1:16 pm
Heard these guys on the inflight entertainment menu – boston to ny last week.
Thank the blessed Shazam, i otherwise would have been absolutely cluless.
Wicked, Wicked track.