Album Review: The Lumineers - Cleopatra

Colorado folk rockers The Lumineers' second LP manages to be both expansive and intimate.

From the slow-build and rolling tempo changes of opener Sleep On The Floor, to the honky-tonk flourishes of single Ophelia, to the foot-stomping title track; the spacious arrangements, narrative lyrics and 'live' sound put you right in the room with the band. Cleopatra threatens to run out of steam during its ballad-heavy back-end, though Patience, a touching 90-second instrumental, closes the album nicely — a note of gratitude perhaps to the fans kept waiting four years for album number two to drop. It was worth the wait.