Dry the River: Shallow Bed – review

(RCA)"It's the chambers and the valves that pump the sentiment around," sings Peter Liddle on a song as robust as his falsetto is crumpled and tremulous. His quintet's ardent pastoral folk is indeed heart-pumping stuff and their chambers and valves are in fine fettle on this debut – churning out rich instrumentation, nimble lyrics and emotional gales of choruses. But the sentiment may stick in your craw, not your heart, in that talk of Bible belts, railroads and medicine men rings just a bit h...

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