Postscript - If Not For You
9/10
Sometimes, the best music is found most unexpectedly. I found Alberta’s Post Script busking in Reykjavik. Debut album "If Not For You" was recorded in a farm house built by bassist/vocalist Paul Cournoyer's grandparents. With such a backstory, this is going to be roots music. There is much more to it than that. Underneath the country, folk and Americana, there's some post-rocking guitar.
Musically, there are hints of Fleet Foxes, Bright Eyes, Neil Young, Stray Birds and even Isobel Campbell's work with Mark Lanegan. Vocally, the mix of the voices of Steph Blais, Cournoyer and Brayden Treble brings to mind Of Monsters And Men, Arcade Fire - without the bombast of either - and, more particularly, The Delgados. This album is quite lovely, with songs in English and French. Dear Marie and Impossible may be the most gorgeous pieces of melancholia I have heard this year. Mama is a good humoured tale of a young woman and her beau trying to persuade her mother that the young man ain't a bad sort.
If success was based on the strength of the songs, the music biz would be stampeding to Alberta to sign Post Script. As it is, this has snuck out on iTunes and needs a much, much bigger audience
9/10
