Gruff does his take on Muswell Hillbillies, rolling around in Brit-tinged Americana to tell the true story of a Welsh explorer chasing the false legend of Native Welsh-Americans. Electronic tones, strings, ragged guitars goose the dustier roots off track, because Gruff, and the tale's told loosely throughout, ranging from awkwardly specific to hypnotically abstract.
There' barely a memorable moment; the thematic carts lead the musical horses as usual, but American Interior gets by on its endless chugging momentum. The story predates the railroad, but there's something about the clipping rhythms, the too-long stretches of repetition, that captures something deeper about crossing the vastness of America, that speaks louder than any expository slice of libretto 3.5/5
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