SirLARIATO: Tides of a Teardrop by Watchhouse

Every album by Watchhouse (formerly Mandolin Orange) feels like a warm embrace from an old friend, but Tides of a Teardrop is their most melancholy and perhaps their most thematically coherent, dealing with the death of a parent. In spite of the heavy creative spark behind the piece, the album remains a joy to listen to, as all their music does, and it's only here and there that you get a sense of the pain and loss that spurred on many of the tracks here. The musicianship, of course, is of the charts; the husband and wife duo remain some of the most accomplished players in the collective folk-country-Americana bandstand, and the result is one of their most accomplished collections of music to date.

Tides of a Teardrop

2/1/2019