The siren's song

"With Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) as producer, the playfulness of Kacy & Clayton's revamped live show is reflected in The Siren's Song ... The Siren's Song is another compelling chapter in what looks increasingly likely to be the long story of Kacy & Clayton's career".

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"The collaboration [with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy] has helped Kacy & Clayton to develop a muscular groove without sacrificing their inherent delicacy ... "Cannery Yard" (with Kacy on fiddle) shows their remarkable ability to fashion new material from the forms and structures of folk song, whilst "Just Like A Summer Cloud" finds Kacy Anderson's ravishing voice mysteriously evoking Emmylou Harris, Roy Orbison and the Roadhouse in Twin Peaks, while remaining utterly and uniquely true to itself. There's a wonderfully rich vein of dark, lyrical humour in songs that deal with the isolation and "otherness" of life in the vastness of Saskatchewan: "The hills of White Butte Country/Are a pleasant sight to see/But the girls of White Butte Country/Got the same Grandpa as me" ... Their abiding love of British folk's golden age manifests in "The Siren's Song", which recalls The Pentangle in their prime, and the closing "Go And Leave Me", learned from Norma Waterson, which harks back to that"TheDay Is Past And Gone" album that grabbed our attention in the first place ... Kacy & Clayton aren't the kind of act that likes to make a big showbiz fuss about itsaelf, but would rather just listen to old recrds, play guitars and sing like angels whilst effortlessly radiating natural prairie cool. To hear them is to love them".