New music from Brooklyn-via-Tacoma band Widowspeak: the debut LP following the “Gun Shy” 7-inch, which includes a cover of Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game.” which followed the “Harsh Realm” 7-inch, which follows the “Widowspeak” EP — which is sadly no longer available for free download.
I’ve been really feeling Widowspeak’s drifty/wasted take on Americana. There’s a lot of guitar-centric roots-ish music going around lately, and for whatever reason I prefer bands who are more ghostly and aloof with it, rather than wide-eyed and overtly sentimental. Widowspeak is the former, and to me right on time, what the game’s been missing.
