Blog: LocalCut

The King Can Drink the Harbor Dry (Pet Marmoset Records) [ANTIQUE POP] Dimes, can you spare a brother? Spare me your tedious mid-tempo strumming, wan melodies, sedate vocals, and especially, your humorless lyrical gloss on a CliffsNotes summary of a high-school American history textbook. Yes, your sophomore release, The King Can Drink the Harbor Dry, sure sounds pretty at first, with its tastefully restrained acoustic arrangements and careful harmonies—but it doesn't take too many similar-sounding songs for those qualities to become liabilities. And I had to get [...]