Holy Family – “Whatever There’s to Know” [Daily MP3 #89]

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Holy Family – “Whatever There’s to Know” MP3/download

Finally, an up-and-coming indie band understands the importance of Silver Apples, post-Folk Implosion. Holy Family, in all their busy-beat glory, are as close to Simeon and the Apples as anyone has gotten since I started reviewing music and craving Contact clones.

I think the chorus loses some of the momentum, but nothing could quell the propulsive velocity of that RHYthm, that DRIve, that ENGine of sound that will carry you home and deliver you safely to boot.

Thank god this wasn’t a freak-folk monstrosity … Another Fleet Foxes rip-off just wouldn’t be kosher. I much prefer the future-funk oscillations and queer-prog of “Whatever There’s to Know.” It’s nice and long, too, so the composition gets the chance to sink its teeth in and SUCK your resistance dry.