Song Review/ Alt Folk : The Agency…’s ‘Harbour Song’
The Agency does retro futurism in the context of alt folk better than anyone else. It is quite difficult to tell where the classic ends and the contemporary begins. Their acoustic presentations detail deep, dark emotional tales that transform the most commonplace themes into haunting realities. In their latest single, ‘Harbour Song’, The Agency… collaborates with The Sampires to craft a fantastical melancholy that forms on the edge of dystopia.
It is smoothly disrupting, like bottomless silence; seeping into, and activating spaces that carry old wounds, painful secrets. The vocals, in their monotonal march, solemnly honor the flow of melody and the echo of harmony. Like dreary dawn with its gray, fazed out skies, it carries in the listener in ways that is reminiscent of Simon and Garfunkel or Björk’s stark Icelandic landscapes. Listen Now!
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