This Uppsala-based band's latest full-album, Solace in Sore Hands, contains a stirring narrative with civil war imagery that might give listeners the impression that a sleepless Confederate soldier had actually penned the lyrics by the light of a candle. This coming from Swedish songwriter Olof Gidlöf of the alt-country group Amandine, but the uninformed might have assumed that a southern U.S.-based folk band produced the sonically authentic track Soldiers Hands.
and all the soldiers' hands were redThen the storyteller switches viewpoints from outsider to insider, offering both angles for the imagination to project.
from all the tears and blood that's shed
and in the morning when the reveilleThrough winsome vocal tracks, Gidlöf imbues the ongoing American Civil War story with deep iceberg blues.
pulls us from more sleep
Their most pop-friendly track is Secrets.
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