Description
With navigating the current world becoming more challenging every day, Twisted Pine delivers the kind of album that makes it feel like everything is going to be okay. Instrumental virtuosity — the band’s calling card — abounds on their latest album but so too do moments of sheer pop glory, funky all-day grooves, and spacecraft sonics. Their newgrass cohorts — Punch Brothers, Béla Fleck, Sierra Hull, Old Crow Medicine Show — remain appropriate touchstones, but Twisted Pine adds some funky touches that also call to mind Lake Street Dive. Even with all those touchstones, Twisted Pine is uniquely their own. As bassist Chris Sartori says, their music is “a little fruity, a little spicy, and it doesn’t take itself too seriously … easier to feel, than it is to describe.”
At the center of every song on Right Now is the instrumentalists’ interplay, with a special nod to Kathleen Parks’ fiddling and Sartori’s bass playing acting as the backbone. Despite the instrumental emphasis, Parks’ voice soars or drops to a near-whisper when the song demands it, and she uses her voice like another instrument to propel the songs further. This one is a keeper….check it out!
