Listening to Angus & Julia Stone's new album Down The Way is a joyful experience. The Australian-born brother-and-sister team seem to inject every song with a playful, yet emotional brilliance which never too much to being embarrassingly. Down The Way is their second album, and during the time the band have travelled all over the world to prepared this album. Down The Way is an accomplished collection of delicate acoustic melodies with childen-like innocence.
In the vocals the Stones have managed to retain the best aspects and have built upon them. The harmonies are still strong, and at times is gorgeous. Julia has tried to keep an innocence, yet a bit sad sense in her sound.
The lush and sweet opener “Hold On” is a perfect introduction, with Julia’s delicate vocal enchanting everything with the sweet tones. The song “Big Jet Plane” is another great example of their incorporation of arrangements, with violin punctuating the boyish vocals of Angus. And in ”Santa Monica Dream” seems the two voices coming together, perfectly complementing each other.
Angus & Julia have put together a good album. Listen Down The Way is a charming, unpretentious enjoyment. It’s like a coffee shop or park bench that you’d like to think no one else knows about—put there simply for you to appreciate.
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Winnie Huang
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