Tuesday, March 28, 2017
#2475 The Verlaines - Hallelujah all the Way Home
Juvenilia, The Verlaines' signature album, kicked off by namedropping Rennaisance painting and Decadent poets. That out-of-step Decemberists-via-Smiths thread is on full display on their debut, cooing pretty shufflers offset by desperate lo-fi punk blasts, all backed by their signature waves of relentless acoustic strums, bouncing along and on and on. Charmingly off-center, bristling with energy, a perfect encapsulation of the Dunedin scene 4/5
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