Khancoban - Limbs May Fall (Album)
» khancoban announces second album and tour - June 15, 2011
I’m amazed by the patience of real folk musicians. They can clearly play their battered instruments but practice such restraint in order to produce a sound that just takes you to a place you wish you’d been somewhere before.
Khancoban (if the H is silent, it’s a fun word to say) paint their music with watercolours on a textured canvas. Pete Cohen’s basslines wander with welcomed dissonance and the keys drone like cicadas on a summer dusk while Andrew Bonnici’s guitar work fill the spaces like the butteriest icing you can remember from your childhood. The lyrics and melodies of Andre Hooke resonate and carry the music gently like an old man walking his dog on a long leash while Jemima (which is also a fun word to say) Hooke’s drums march along with every track in simplistic perfection.
Limbs May Fall is not for listening to whilst driving fast in the car – I learned that the hard way – but rather for making love to or catching up with an old friend over an oversized glass of red.
