Intruiging debut album
Paul Allaer | Cincinnati | 07/06/2009
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Now, Now Every Children consists of the duo and long-time friends Cacie Dalager (lead vocals and guitars) and Brad Hale (drums). After self-releasing a couple of EPs, the band got signed to the Afternoon Records label and now comes their debut album.
The overall sound on "Cars" (11 tracks; 39 min.) reminds me of Calla (albeit with a female lead singer, of course), with sparse instrumentation but nevertheless building into a full sound, you would never know that this is just a duo when listening to the album. My favorite tracks include the opener "Not One, But Two" (one of the songs from the early EPs, but rerecorded for the album), "Everyone You Know" (also from an earlier EP). Midway in the album, things kick up another notch with the threatening "Friends With My Sister", starting off slowly but eventually crashing into a wall of sound and a great instrumental outro, just great (and the best track on the album), "Headlights" and "In the City", expanding their sound to include some synths. Nice.
In all, this is quite an intruiging debut album, and I've had this in my CD player for quite a while. Now, Now Every Children is about to hit the road again for a nation-wide tour starting in early August with another up-and-coming band, Bad Veins, and what a delightful double bill that makes. I can only hope they will make it close to Cincinnati sometime soon, as I can't wait to see how these songs will resonate in a live setting."