Anna & Elizabeth

"The sound is pure Appalachian mountain music, so completely in tune with its roots that, were it not for the clarity, you'd think you were listening to a long-lost, century-old recording ... The Appalachian sound is present throughout the album in a few different guises and with a few tweaks here and there. "Little Black Train"'s humour and twinkle owes something to the Carter Family's version, but also something to Woody Guthrie's. Roberts-Gevalt's guitar brings a hint of the blues to proceedings. The gospel song "Poor Pilgrim Of Sorrow"'s guitar, on the other hand, conjures up a state of melancholy by its dark, simple, almost minimalist approach, similar to Leonard Cohen's earliest and folkiest recordings, or Bill Callahan ... "Anna And Elizabeth" is unexpectedly and endlessly varied. The singing is never less than beautiful, the playing often inspired and the creative tangents that are explored are always engaging ... This is a rare album that is as intimate as itisambitious and as idiosyncratic as it is reverential".

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