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The Handsome Family - Honey Moon Coming straight from the mid- to late-90s alt country scene, The Handsome Family have a reputation for solid laid-back country styles woven with sparse, effective harmonies and gritty, tearing lyrics. Brett's nasal delivery has enough boom to carry the weight of the lyrics and scratches enough to transfuse the pain directly to the listener, and Ronnie's harmonies lift the lyrics into stark, empty, starless space. The feeling is truly a grounded, earthly feeling... while stretched hopelessly upward to the heavens. In a slight change [...]

• The Handsome Family - When You Whispered » When_You_Whispered.mp3