“Folk” Reviews

Arco’s Chris Healey has just about the softest, whispery-est voice in pop music.

After several long, hard listens, one sees how lovely this simply, unassuming album can be.

He has taken evangelism to a peculiar but effective level that involves love and not persecution.

A dark conviction runs through these songs, along with a tangible spirituality that makes them so intensely captivating.

The talent is pretty overwhelming throughout the record.

Cat Power used to be one of those bands that I lumped in with “all the rest of the indie crap that’s not drone.”

A grand musical road trip that, as meandering as it is sometimes, always promises a surprise around the next bend.

To say that Chernoff’s vocals and lyrics are an acquired taste is an understatement.

He describes his music as a a little bit of folk, a bit of blues, and a lot of pop and rock.

What keeps Molasses from sounding like a tired rendition of old folk numbers is the alien sense of dread and foreboding just below the surface.

A sense of refuge allows for a recording as sparse, mysterious, and intimate as this one.

It might be just what you need at 10:30 on a Sunday night.