Staff Reviews

King's Daughters and Sons - If Then Not When

Review by George Bass

If Then Not When reaches the quality you’d expect of a November Chemikal Underground release: wintry, beautiful… basically the Delgados on an iced-over dirt trail.»

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debut album from band featuring various touch and go alumni. hailing from louisville ky, king's daughters and sons feature members of rachel's, shipping news, the for carnation and shannon wright. three years in the making 'if then not when' was recorded by kevin ratterman (california guitar trio, my morning jacket, wax fang) and mastered by bob weston (shellac). king's daughters and sons are informed by, though not beholden to, the history of its respective
members: haunting, spare and at times explosively unsettling, they have been described as part
william faulkner, part led zeppelin. the music on the album deals mostly with ghost stories, murder ballads and grimoires: dark narratives that recall nick cave and the work of louisville luminaries slint.
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