The Standing Waves Exeter, UK
Q MAGAZINE ****
The Standing Waves exist in a modern mid-Atlantic musical milieu that increasingly intersects in the
related
worlds of alt-folk, alt-country and quite possibly, alt-alt. Muscular and melancholy like a sad poet on steroids, this is a band that touch a lot of bases but never stay on them for too long. Remarkable, assured and gorgeous.
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