The holy strangers

"The story of a wartime family, Micah P Hinson's self-described "modern folk opera" drifts with the mesmerising quality of an old-time train ... Hinson has largely succeeded in creating a bewitching Americana record that is quite his own and his most accomplished work to date".

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"Hinson's "modern folk opera" ends on what sounds like an updated version of Kumbaya for the pessimistic. The original song, a simple appeal to God for help, includes adjectives like laughing and singing, yet Hinson takes us back through the sad events of the family in the album story: someone's fighting, someone's hurting, someone's screaming, someone's burning, someone's died, no one's cried - Oh Lord, come by here.It's a powerful, lonely, gloomy - and very clever - end to a very clever album".