The Ballantynes | Liquor Store Gun Store Pawn Shop Church [REVIEW]

The Ballantynes make beautiful nighttime noise. On their latest release, Liquor Store Gun Store Pawn Shop Church, the garage soul outfit sermonizes on longing and love, vice and sin, good times and bad. Notes of 50s diner rock appear in the roiling keys and back alley choir support, and especially in the him-and-her vocals: his with a froggy twang reminiscent of The Sonics, hers a scarlet soulful growl. Church is a bewitching six-song spread of bouncing rhythms and singalong infectiousness. With this album The Ballantynes have made the perfect companion to a 3AM walk home, wandering through blinking stoplights and lonely streets, a little companionship to keep you warm until you fall into bed.

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