Album Review: Kyle Craft - Dolls Of Highland

The new kid on the Sub Pop block, Kyle Craft makes a big impact with his debut album.

It's a kaleidoscopic collision of Bowie, Dylan, Nilsson and West Coast-sounding show tunes, all wrapped up in an indie, glam fervour and populated by a raft of colourful characters. His voice surges on a stomping, swaggering bed of urgent strumming and bar room piano pounding. Built on classic foundations of rock'n'roll, Craft shows a deft and unbridled ability in drawing on the more contemporary sounds of Cold War Kids, Father John Misty and Neutral Milk Hotel to make the frantic, heady (and wordy) rush all his own. This is a highly accomplished debut from a prodigious talent.