Cheyenne Shows Off Summer Teeth
Folk-rockers bring an all too familiar sound - and it's a good one.
Cheyenne
The Whale
Released on Nov 30, -0001
The second album from Brooklyn based Folk-Rock act Cheyenne had me at a crossroads. Upon first listen, one cannot dismiss the obvious Jeff Tweedy-like voice of front man Beau Jennings and the more direct approach to straight ahead pop ala mid-ninety’s Wilco. The snob inside my cruddy brain motioned to my finger to press stop; but with hesitation I kept listening and listening and listening. I can now tell you that there is not one single bad song on The Whale.
Cheyenne began in 2003 in Norman, OK as a nighttime bedroom project by a daytime architect named Beau Jennings. The Whale consists of a few top tier collaborators from the underground, including Starlight Mints member Ryan Lindsey and Ex-Fruit Bats pedal steel player Rob Stephenson.
Each song on The Whale has an uncanny ability to wrap them selves around you like a warm buffalo coat. Gram Parson like harmonies ("Cimmaron River")intertwine themselves with lyrics to break up with your sweetheart to ("That Was The Ghost).
If imitation is the ultimate form of flattery, Tweedy, Adams, Robertson and Dylan should all be a giddy bunch of old fogies when they hear this latest effort from Cheyenne.
The Whale will be Self-Released on December 7th.
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