Daily Download: "Waves of Grain," Two Gallants

Published March 2, 2006 8:01AM (EST)

San Francisco guitar and drums duo Two Gallants' stock in trade is loud, sloppy, frenetic, semi-drunken country blues that fairly screams, "Listen to how young, angry, irreverent and yet somehow still traditionalist we are!" But when they stop chest-thumping, and give up on trying to sound even more brattily rebellious than their friend and label boss, Conor Oberst, their quality reveals itself. The aching, 9-minute-long "Waves of Grain" is a stunner, good enough to make me go back and listen to less immediately appealing songs like "Las Cruces Jail" and give them another try.


By Salon Staff

MORE FROM Salon Staff


Related Topics ------------------------------------------