The Delines from Portland are the kind of band that makes reviewers dig for the best way to describe their music. Cinematic" is used quite often. Muziekweb, in its description of the second band album
The Imperial (2019), put it down to 'dark country soul'. Hopefully it will pique curiosity. Because this follow-up is well typically one of those albums that deserves to be discovered by a large
… audience. As was the case in 2020 for U Kin B The Sun by Frazey Ford and in 2021 for Ignorance by The Weather Station. Records that get under your skin in an organic, unadorned way. Whereas 2014's debut Colfax revolved around the eponymous avenue right across Denver, The Sea Drift focuses on the Texas Gulf Coast. It's there that the gifted song-cum-novelist Willy Vlautin (ex-Richmond Fontaine) this time situates his miniature tales of losers, drunks and helpless people, which singer Amy Boone sings indescribably beautifully. Like Dusty (Springfield) in Memphis, is a previously used, beautiful interpretation, but around three in the morning. (RME)more
