Soundbyte - The Lovely Sparrows: Bury the Cynics

The Lovely Sparrows
Bury the Cynics
Abandoned Love Records
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On "Teenage Viking", one of the highlights from the The Lovely Sparrows' Bury the Cynics, shaggy-haired lead singer Shawn Jones asserts that he “doesn’t speak in tongues”. While he prefers a gorgeous sing-song to linguistic outbursts, The Lovely Sparrows' folk-pop may inspire fans to speak in tongues themselves in adoration of this gem of a record. Less "folk" and less "freak" than their west coast contemporaries, the Austin-based Lovely Sparrows explore the conventional lyrical topics of the Freak Folk genre – lost love, loneliness, nature – with an immediacy and warmth that make for what can best be described as a “lovely” record.

– J Ridewood
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