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Cousins: Around Their Waists
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There’s something appealing about Cousins, a new quartet from Halifax, Nova Scotia, but it takes patience to discover that appeal. After listening to several cuts from their debut album, I was disappointed with the lack of hooks, waiting for something to GRAB me. The band was unknowingly at the top of a digital pile of 100’s of songs I had to sift through, and I was impatient.
But then, I finally realized: They’re not in a hurry to get from start to finish. Cousins is content to lazily but skillfully make their musical points, and I’m content to let them. Songs like “Around Their Waists” demonstrate the bands’ dreamy, relaxed form of songwriting, but they somehow manage to inject an intensity – likely from the fuzzed out but intricate guitar lines, mixed with the gentle, melodic Neil Young’ish warblings of singer/guitarist Aaron Mangle. |
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