You'll hear much more about this folk duo in the coming months.
The gorgeous third record from The Milk Carton Kids is calledThe Ash & Clay, it is released this Friday and we have it streaming in full on theMusic.com.au all week long!
Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan hail from Los Angeles and have been making music together for a few years now. They dropped their first two albums - Retrospect and Prologue - back in 2011 and now, after attracting the attention of none other than the Anti- label, they releaseThe Ash & Claythis Friday.
It's one of the more gorgeous folk records we have heard this year, there's a warmth and an intimacy in the way these songs sound, while the tales are equal parts forlorn and sweetly comforting. Let's not even get started on those damn harmonies, oh my lord...
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The record is out Friday through Anti-/Epitaph but you can listen to it in full here. Fans of classic American folk music need to at least give it a crack.