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LONG ODDS The Dry Land LP (Clean Demon)

One of the few qualified to talk up the virtues of Long Odds, punchin’ in: this is a sporadic solo project from Times New Viking’s Adam Elliott, his second release under this name, beyond 2022’s magnificent, digital-only album Fine Thread (one of that year’s best). As the third leg supporting TNV’s third-eye drilling, transistor campfire singalongs, and the power pop from every angle he made while in Connections with his brother Kevin, Long Odds is a sparser affair, getting to the heart of his songwriting animus. While Fine Thread keened more into an Xpressway/Jefferies brothers-meets-Ohio tavern imprimatur, The Dry Land trustfalls into the earth, still patient, but more assertive, louder, dirt beneath its nails. A gardener by trade, Elliott’s hymns and waltzes to the patch of land and the lives lived on it, through it, and because of it, don’t true any straighter or less direct than anything out there. His Anglo baritone saws through the burn of guitars, surveying this landscape for us, eye-level with every detail, and anyone in the mind of recalibrating to the American roots, far from the jingoist clap, need only get over here, now. A short record, it nevertheless embodies the qualities of his other outlets, and if those projects affected you, you’ll find the core of those feelings here. And as TNV gradually reactivates, we’ll hopefully be getting more chances to accept his truths as our own.

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