Austin’s Balmorhea has always made beautiful music, but that pulchritude has often belied the underlying sensuality that makes their music so inviting. The band takes a giant leap forward, embracing that sensuality, on their bold and variegated new album All is Wild, All is Silent. Now a six piece, the band known for their understated simplicity and restraint has produced an album as complex as the workings of the lonely human heart.
Highly recommended from Slowcoustic, I mean after River Arms (their previous album), they had a lot to live up to, and they have done a great job. I don’t want to compare them side by side, as the new album feels “too new” at the moment in order to rate one over the other. Take a listen to a track “Harm & Boon” for an idea.
Balmorhea
“Harm & Boon”
from “All Is Wild, All Is Silent”
(Western Vinyl)
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But lest we forget the previous album…
Balmorhea
“The Winter” (mp3)
“San Solomon” (mp3)
from “Rivers Arms”
(Western Vinyl)
~Smansmith
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