The Handsome Family – Unseen (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:09 minutes | 497 MB | Genre: Country, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Loose Music
The Handsome Family is an alternative country and Americana duo consisting of husband and wife Brett and Rennie Sparks formed in Chicago, Illinois, and currently based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They are perhaps best known for their song “Far from Any Road” from the album “Singing Bones”, which was used as the main title theme for the first season of HBO’s 2014 crime drama True Detective. The band’s 10th album, “Unseen”, was released in September 2016, the first new release on the band’s own label and through long-time label Loose in Europe.
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The Handsome Family – Hollow (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:49 minutes | 492 MB | Genre: Alt. Country, Americana
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LOOSE
The Handsome Family’s new record began with a scream in the night. “It was a bleak winter during the middle of the pandemic,” says Brett Sparks. “One night around 4 a.m. Rennie started screaming in her sleep. She screamed, ‘Come into the circle Joseph! There’s no moon tonight.’ Scary as it was, I thought, man, that’s a good chorus!” The Handsome Family (songwriting and marriage partners Brett and Rennie Sparks) have been defining the dark end of Americana for over 30 years. Brett writes the music and Rennie writes the words. Their work has been covered by many artists including Jeff Tweedy, Andrew Bird and most-recently Phoebe Bridgers.
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