Widowers - Self-Titled Release
Widowers won me over at last year’s Denver Post Underground Music Festival last year with their Elephant-6-inspired sound. And with their self-titled album, they have succeeded in keeping me more than interested.
The album spans most of the band’s career (the recording process was a very long, painstaking one) and so it is a bit on the uneven side. The songs run an emotional gamut from slow and dysphoric to bright and sanguine. But the quality of the songs is consistently good, and is a solid representation of the band’s live shows (which, in my mind, are everything a local indie rock show should be).
The Widowers really don’t have a weak point so far as musicianship goes. The tinkly keyboarding on “Bone Collecting” is spot-on for its strangely Beach Boys-esque sound, and the dulcet guitar picking on “I-80″ is perfectly evocative of the emptiness of that loooong stretch of Midwestern highway.
Most of us who grew up in the greater Denver area point to the late 90s, and the rise of the Elephant 6 collective, as the “coulda woulda shoulda” point in Colorado music, where we had the chance to become one of America’s Important Music Cities. But if the spirit of the collective continues to be carried on by bands like The Widowers, we may just see such an opportunity again.
MP3 - Shine A Light
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