A music blogger needs a couple of go to labels for when the well runs dry. These labels need to have obsessively good taste, need to be free and easy with mp3′s, and for me they need to release music that speaks to the heart. Team Love is one such go to label for me. Amazingly I could probably live happily ever after with just the records they’ve released over the past few years.
The guy from McCarthy Trenching (Dan McCarthy) has been opening for and playing with many of the successful projects on Team Love including playing with Cursive, Tilly, Bright Eyes etc etc. The label has extremely high hopes for hi sophomre solo outing Calamity Drenching. The songs offered up are a combination of Bright Eyes earnestness and Felice Brother rootsyness. I know I’ve compared a number of artists to him of late but on “Roasting Song” there is a serious nod to John Prine. These songs were recorded in Dan’s living room on an 8-track which adds to their warmth and sincerity.
McCarthy Trenching is a band on Team Love. In some ways that’s enough said. Pre-order Calamity Drenching here.