2024-02-16 18:59:57
The three Balkcom sisters Lily, Ellie and Powell are making their debut EP A Little Goes a Long Way ready to as The Castellows potentially becoming new stars of contemporary country.
Therefore, the genre market is likely to become even more lucrative in the foreseeable future than it already is – as an indicator of this can be seen alongside the performances of Reba McEntire and the band Post Malone At the Super Bowl there was certainly also the country proclamation flanked by wonderfully worded headlines Beyoncé – the three siblings from Georgetown, Georgia probably came to Nashville at a good time to have their neo-traditional sound made ready for format radio.
They have appropriately pretty songs for it The Castellows with the exception of (which is currently experiencing a kind of renaissance through many cover versions) Hurricaneoriginally a hit for Leon Everette in 1981 and here now with a slight dark glow over the cuteness, all self-written: veritable little catchy tunes across the board – sometimes more, sometimes less.
The title track establishes the band’s relaxed, pop-swaying country style in a pleasantly catchy manner, without, despite such banal rhyme lines as “I’m a little in the middle/
When it comes to love and hate“, is somehow too intrusive, and makes it seem almost irrelevant, given the really beautifully interlocking harmonies, the nice melodies and immediately catchy hooks, that the material does not create any real depth.
Whatever, like the one led by the banjo and supported by a lively rhythm section Heartline Hill is demonstrated demonstratively, is due to the staging of the record: the instruments always remain inoffensive behind the voices, the production works smoothly and cleanly, has no ambitions for contrasts apart from the support work – the singing can usually occupy a comfort zone that hardly risks any emotional shades, but it does without tension or friction, this also offers a latently boring result beyond the vocals.
The fact that producer Trina Shoemaker (who records the sisters more like flawlessly working, sophisticated old hands who don’t sound anything like 18 or 20 year olds) mainly deals with folk and Americana has a negative impact, but it does this is the success that the sensational A Little Goes a Long Way will certainly come in, but will hardly reduce it.
That’s what the EP’s songs are all about, beyond the catchy single No. 7 Road or the more carefully designed one Cowboy Kind of Love to fiddling I Know It’ll Never End, all of them are too disarming, too charismatic and stay in your ear canals without any effort. Alone if it is kept compact I Know It’ll Never End Sounds like Zach Bryan wrote a smart rocking catchy tune for Taylor Swift and her usual themes, the band certainly deserves to appeal to a wide audience.
If it’s a mainstream consensus, then it’s like this: tasteful, competent, authentic – and with the potential to move away from superficiality after this first round of introductions.
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