You could blame the fact that I'd just finished watching I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, the excellent Sam Jones documentary about a certain seminal Wilco album, right before cracking open the laptop and attempting to wax poetic about Aim Low Kid. Regardless, the hints of noisy, rootsy folk rock that make up "Couple Dozen People," the track that fully opens the band's Soundtrack for the New Depression after a 40-second instrumental ditty, make for apt comparison to the groundbreaking and influential alt-country Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

Not that we should mistake Aim Low Kid simply as just another band that kinda-sorta sounds like Wilco (or Pavement, or the Meat Puppets, or so on); on the contrary, Soundtrack for the New Depression marks the band's efforts as true to their influences while remaining inherently original and experimental. The tracks that make up Soundtrack are peppered with scratchy hooks, electric/acoustic textures, and intense violin licks that color the album with shades of folk, rock, noir, jam, and reverb that both excite and challenge the ears. And of all the unique qualities present on Soundtrack, it's the violin that expertly leads the way – follow the violin, and you'll find yourself at the end of a rather obscure and truly enjoyable journey.
- Anna Gazdowicz

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