Chris Eckman formed Walkabouts in Seattle thirty years ago, a pioneer of the Alternative Country movement. Walkabouts’ low-profile melancholia mirrors their sometime collaborators, Nottingham’s Tindersticks, but Eckman’s solo debut offers an even starker sound, inspired by empty Oregon landscapes, and recorded clean and cold in a vast orchestra studio in Prague. The eleven minute Rock Springs leans lyrically on a Richard Ford story of the same name, and is a low, slow-burning thrum through Americana’s darkest corners.
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Dominic Cavendish, Telegraph
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