Album Review: The Tall Grass - Down The Unmarked Road

Jamie Hutchings and Peter Fenton (Bluebottle Kiss, Crow) have come together as The Tall Grass, which began as a live acoustic duo project before being expanded upon and sonically coloured in the studio with a wide-ranging band sound.

It's still on the laid-back vibe though - wistful, poetic, and melancholic. The sound of their other bands is still evident, particularly Hutchings with his more distinct vocal stylings, but it's wholly a collaborative effort. Songs are expertly built on close harmonies and traded lines, guitars that weave in and out and springboard off each other amid melodic bass lines, field recordings and jazz-mood drums and percussion. It all comes back to the songs though, and Moller, Buyer Beware, The Two O'Clock and Little City in particular, match the best either has written in the past.