Album Reviews

WATER LIARS

Phantom Limb

2012-03-26

Water Liars formed in Missouri in 2011 and recorded their debut album, Phantom Limb, on a whim shortly thereafter. It took only three days and one microphone to get the stripped down guitar-drum duo recorded. Phantom Limb is folk-rock that sometimes sounds a bit like Crazy Horse (“Short Hair”, “Whoa Back”). There is also a quiet, pastoral feel on other tracks (“Low and Long” “On the Day” and the hidden track #10. Might it be called “Cold Hearted Woman”?) Most interesting, though, is the solemn folk-hymn mash-up “It Is Well With My Soul”. Rebecca Ruth

Quick Links:

all reviews | all folk reviews

More reviews tagged #Folk

reviewed 04/2014
BRADFORD LEE FOLK & THE BLUEGRASS PLAYBOYS
Somewhere Far Away
reviewed 02/2009
MISSY RAINES & THE NEW HIP
INSIDE OUT
reviewed 05/2009
Willie Nelson
Naked Willie
reviewed 05/2014
CALE TYSON
High On Lonesome
reviewed 12/2012
THE HANGDOG HEARTS
The Hangdog Hearts
reviewed 10/2010
YVETTE LANDRY
Should Have Known

Compiled by the WYCE Journalism Club

The opinions expressed in these reviews are those of the individual volunteers that submitted the article and do not necessarily reflect the views of WYCE or GRCMC; nor its staff, donors, or affiliates.