Blog: Crack In The Road

Jealousy is one of the best emotions to fuel music; it produces such raw and undiluted effects, combining love and hatred with a pinch of self-loathing, it's neither soppy nor overpoweringly deleterious. These two debut tracks from Austin's BlackBirds/WhiteDirt seem unashamedly grounded amongst envy and a pitying sense of despair, watching the one you yearn continuously fall into the arms of another. We'll get the Bon Iver references out of the way now, however it's entirely unavoidable; nowadays seemingly any male who plucks a guitar is heralded as a direct descendent so don't be too distracted. [...]