
Though I've had it since before SXSW, and despite the fact that I've listened to it regularly in the meantime, I've yet to write anything at length about Spooky Folk's masterful self-titled disc. Though it is a popular quip among people in this town that they are neither folk nor even all that spooky their brand of acoustic guitar/banjo-heavy sound, one would have to argue, does reside somewhere in that folk-rock arena –albeit in a more college-friendly form. But it is meant as no sleight, the arrangements here are carefully thought out, and the lyrics deeply-moving. "She is [...]