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"The sounds - well heartbreaking would I guess be the best way to describe them ‘all ways’ in particular with its pining steel guitar motifs is so utterly crestfallen and down cast that open heart surgery without the administration of anaesthesia would you’d gather be a less painful experience. Poking daintily around the edges of Nick Cave's ‘murder ballads. the imagery starkly vivid the melodies measured, enchanting and cast with a deeply engaging mellowing precision that makes a lie of their tender ages, the Parish Music Box operate from out of the same appealing terrains as the Tindersticks, Calexico and Lambchop, these four showcased cuts disturbingly delight and hurt with the same quiet grandeur as the criminally underrated Kelman whilst in terms of textures, tenderness and artistry are easily the best we’ve heard ruminating from the alt-country scene since Anna Kashfi's near perfect "philokalia".
These liberated love notes cocooned in a timeless song craft and sprinkled with imported Nashville nuances glide sumptuously the smoking slowly burning bruiser ‘bring it on’ smoulders with sapping sophistication nodding at intervals to the quieter and more resonant moments found on the Verve's Urban Hymns whilst finding itself distilled and slyly honey combed within a lilting dust covered porch setting. That said best of the set though by far is sand apple - with its shimmering dulcet toned breeziness and tumbling pastoral cascades recalling in the main Johnny Marr’s delicately memorable application on back to the old house this gem in waiting manages to freewheel as though a prime time Smiths where shimmying up to Scott Walker upon a sparsely freckled frame arranged by a reclining Bacharach."
- Losingtoday.com
"Beautiful"
Rennie, The Handsome Family
"This is where the good stuff starts from, have a good continuance"
-Iggy Pop, Letter to the band.
"Nice!"
Richard Hawley - Richard Hawley Forum
"The wonderfully mellifluous group who spread contentment with such all-pervading curative powers..? Well, they would be The Parish Music Box. Falling somewhere between Richard Hawley and Cousteau they are part country and part lounge croon, and there is something incredibly soothing and honeyed about their sound that I found myself really liking despite my sulky mood."
- songbytoad.com
"lush alt. country"
- The Times
"A sonic marvel"
- Radio 2
"Recommended", "There is some truly beautiful stuff right here."
- Venue Magazine
They play a laid back lounge Americana in the Hawley/Cousteau/Cherry Ghost vein and the music basically just fits. It works. It sounds complete and right: easy going but ebbing and flowing confidently in an old-fashioned kind of way. I think that early buzz has got to be about as good a moment as exists in the music industry. Everyone's excited, it's all new - just f*cking brilliant.
- songbytoad.com
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