Lost Cause Lover Fool

Description

On their seventh studio album, Lost Cause Lover Fool (release scheduled for April 24 on Far Cry/Thirty Tigers), The Milk Carton Kids offer us nine tracks that, more than ever, invite the listener to dwell on the small moments that the album magnifies. Much has changed since the explosive arrival of The Milk Carton Kids — singer-songwriters Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan, originally from Los Angeles — on the folk scene in 2011. And The Milk Carton Kids have evolved as well. But one thing remains: Pattengale and Ryan continue to create music that encourages us to turn down the volume of a chaotic world and savor what truly matters. With folk-tinged arrangements, Lost Cause Lover Fool enriches the duo's signature minimalist sound, so cherished by their fans, while making it, in a way, even more intimate. The album opens with the melancholic notes of the banjo on "Blue Water." Often used for its blazing speed or rhythmic drive, the banjo is here played with delicacy and restraint, evoking more a ray of sunlight on a stretch of grass than a full-fledged bluegrass instrument. The lyrics of this opening track linger on a snapshot of a man walking by a river, remembering the child who used to snuggle against him and who now shares his anxious thoughts. A moment so fleeting it might have gone unnoticed, were it not carrying an emotion as universal as it is ephemeral. Lost Cause Lover Fool magnifies these precious moments, transforms them into captivating worlds, and invites us — implores us — to seize them fully.For fans of SIMON & GARFUNKEL, HANGAR NORD, JIM CROCE.