Tired Pony

Artist- Tired Pony
Album- The Place We Ran From
Label- Fiction/Polydor

This album is fantastic. Lead by Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody, the band wanted to make a country album that sounds more like indy-folk. The first song opens in such a bizarre way that my high expectations for the album immediately lowered. However, the instrumentals picked up after the vocals had been repeating for some time and the song really turned around. And from there on, I was really impressed just after the first song. The buildup in the second song, "Get on the road", paired with the orgasmic hominizations, make for a fantastic track. The album does slow down near the end, and, "The Good Book" is sung by someone other than Lightbody, which is unexpected and slightly disappointing, and the last track ends in a distorted breakdown, which wasn’t what I was expecting. HOWEVER, the first half of the album is just wowzers and makes up for the mediocre songs that follow.