A truly prolific band (there can't be much to do at night in Baltimore…), The Agrarians have released yet another album and this one is called "That New Olde Timey Feele".
Rattling away in the twilight of an energy efficient light bulb, Matt Perzinski - for it is he behind the We of The Agrarians - serves up another slice of his oblique song writing pie for our consumption. Now when I say The Agrarians have gone commercial, you shouldn't get too excited. It's not like you're going to get an old fashioned love song here. Perzinski, of course, stays in his curious time warp connected to lost souls of medieval troubadours and sixties' folk singers but there are moments of near normality such as "The Rustic Joy's Simplicity" that will surely bring - an element of danger here, surely? - a wider audience to this band. It's very nearly conventional. Very nearly.
The sound quality is getting better all the time, as they say. Having said that, this album still works better on my little computer speakers than on the big hi-fi speakers.
Maybe it is just my continued exposure to this band but I find myself hypnotised by their music. I'm still not sure that I like it but I keep returning to it. I do. Time and time again.