The MILK CARTON KIDS The Only Ones (Thirty Tigers/Cooking Vinyl) “I don’t want to fight anymore, maybe you were right/I’m so tired … I don’t want to lie anymore, don’t want to waste your time”. The close quarters struggle – or, you might also say, emotional appeal meeting reality - of the opening song, I Meant Every Word I Said, is not just intimate, it’s practically raw. As if you were sitting in the space between the once-were-warring couple, their breath on your cheeks. Tw

Photograph by Joshua Black Wilkins The American duo who have been compared with Simon & Garfunkel, the Everly Brothers, and Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, recently released a new album which breaks away from their sparse, simple sound. Reviewed HERE. With the possibility of a tour at the end of this year (or early next year, or both), one of the suited singers, Kenneth Pattengale, explains why a messy night in 2015 changed everything. WE WILL GET to a “disgusting trail of

THE MILK CARTON KIDS All The Things That I Did And All The Things That I Didn’t Do (Anti-) You are two men with guitars. Just guitars. One of the guitars with a handkerchief or scarf knotted halfway up the neck; one of the men with glasses. You sing and you harmonise with a similar simplicity-with-elegance, a similar dusty-times-before-television essence, to your plain suits and ties. And your tone, your stories, are as sombre, as shorn of fripperies, as minor (key, and flair