Oh, My Girl by Sykes, Jesse / Sweet Hereafter (CD, 2004)

Tucker Martine

Barsuk, Bars

0655173103623

16046043687

CD

2004

Alt-Country & Americana

Sykes, Jesse / Sweet Hereafter

Oh, My Girl

0.35 in

0.21 lb

5.63 in

4.93 in

1

10

United States

1.1 Oh, My Girl 1.2 You Are Not Gotten Here 1.3 Troubled Soul 1.4 The Dreaming Dead 1.5 Your Eyes Told 1.6 Tell the Boys 1.7 Birds Over Water 1.8 Winter Hunter 1.9 House By the Lake 1.10 Grow a New Heart

Styke's stark songs roil with themes e of loss, resignation and love laid bare, playing them sonically and lyrically somewhere in between, vintage Neil Young, the warm country-gothic-noir of Nick Cave and the elegant indie rock of Cat Power. OH MY GIRL is the second full-length with guitarists/songwriter Phil Wandscher (Whiskeytown). "Sykes has a Sandy Denny-like ability to swing unpredictably to swing unpredictably between brittle vulnerability and calm, centered power and her songwriting is mesmerizing in it's stong-solid refusal to move at any buts it's own glacial, deliberate pace - Chicago Reader"