I've been enjoying the new CD (WHAT MAKES A WEED?) IMMENSELY. (Julia sings What Makes A Wee? along with What Makes A Weed?) The songs are intricate, intimate and warm -- full of the stuff of lives being lived. The music is quirky (as your compositions often are), layered, and at times deceptively simple, but the songs stretch in unpredictable directions. The instrumentation is rich and textured, Mark's delicious guitar work woven around the rhythm and bass.
Soothing vocal harmonies too, really nice on the ears. The album has an organic unity to it. Different as many of the songs are, they correspond with each other and make up the whole. Some rockin' numbers and tender ballads.
"The Hollow" is such a brilliant, beautiful, poetic song. Each time I have listened to it I cry, really cry. I don't know a song that looks mortality in the face any more vividly and poignantly than this. It reminds me of the great ancient Chinese poems. You guys are really doing it!!