Mt Desolation: Mt Desolation | CD review

(Island)Is there something in the water over in the land of MOR bands? First Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody helms a country side project; now it's the turn of Keane's Tim Rice-Oxley and Jesse Quin. Mt Desolation have their alt-country inflections down to a T – the pedal steel weeps into life very effectively, song titles are suitably homespun (Annie Ford, Bridal Gown) – but as they're essentially Keane in cowboy boots, the music is burnished to a turn. The duo gravitate toward sweeping grandeu...

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