Local Reviews: The Rattails Present The Loyal — One.Two..Three…
Local Music Reviews
The Rattails Present The Loyal
One.Two..Three…
TRPTL = Cat Stevens + Rilo Kiley + Agnes Poetry + Touchdown Eagle
These ex-AM Feed members have made a 15-song album with plenty of beauty to spare. The acoustic guitars, drums and keyboards lean heavily on sometimes thick, sometimes delicate, melody and the vocals (mostly male, some female) tend to fall primarily on the soft and fragile side of pretty. Dalliances into realms of the thespian-esque permeate the lyrical content in that reaching, yearning, trying-to-pin-down-the-infinite sort of a way. The sum whole makes this album feel like a confession — very naked, very sincere. It can make the listener feel a bit uneasy — kind of like when that red-headed overweight girl in the velvet dress absolutely must read you her newest poem. But then, surprisingly, her newest poem is actually pretty fucking good. —Jesus Harold
