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Christmas in the Meantime
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Christmas in the Meantime
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Released: Jan 1, 2009
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General Info

  • Genre: Americana / Country / Folk Rock

    Location Minneapolis / St Paul, Minnesota, US

    Profile Views: 49336

    Last Login: 10/28/2011

    Member Since 9/20/2005

    Website www.westernfifth.com

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... ...... .......... .. .. Their sound is lonesome, haunting, and almost classic country at times, yet sounds right at home in the world of independent rock music. Western Fifth creates a visionary sound, founded on heartfelt and often dark lyrics, blended with both classic and eclectic instrumentation. .. .. The band recorded their shambling, country-tinged debut EP in a single weekend during the winter of 2006. Lasting nearly a day and a half, the mostly improvised sessions were tracked at Silver Ant Studio in Minneapolis. .. .. Western Fifth started playing shows at various venues around the Twin Cities in the summer of 2006, and has since expanded to a six-piece ensemble. In addition to the traditional guitar, bass and drums, they incorporate a myriad of instruments into their music, including piano, lap steel guitar, Wurlitzer, trumpet, mandolin, organ, and banjo. .. .. “…much of their stuff was like listening to The Replacements if they had hired Steve Earle to do their arrangements for them, and then tossed a trumpet in from time to time to round things out. The lyrics were rich in imagery and the music was spare at turns, despite having six group members onstage, but as they got rolling it sort of felt like you'd been hit in the head with a bar of soap shoved into a sock—it was a lot to digest, emotionally. The songs had a worn, frayed-at-the-edges feel as if they had emerged, fully formed, from the drawer of some long-forgotten piece of furniture in the basement of an even longer-forgotten, broken-down farmhouse.” - Pat O’Brien, howwastheshow.com .. .. .. .. ..MyGen.. ..Profile Generator.. .... ......

  • Members

    Ryan Holweger .. Jon Wurm .. Thomas Case .. Josh Christenson .. Tim Heinlein ....contact: westernfifth@hotmail.com

  • Influences

  • Sounds Like

    “I couldn’t overcome feeling I’d been dropped into the novel world of Cormac McCarthy’s gritty western fiction meets pure Souther Gothic. Lyrics are imbued with a straightforward clarity and darkness. Melodies echo universal hard-scrabble characters and striking vistas….You can nearly feel the fading heart, the grieving, the loss, the warm fluids running across cold fingers.” - Refueled Magazine .. .. “lyrics that are beautiful, sadly poetic, and assume an almost existential air….ranging from delicate, quiet acoustic to a full-band blast, it leaves nothing to be desired” – 30music.com .. .. “these songs create an audio landscape of hard times and cold winters with a sweet, sad reverie and sad twangs of yesteryear.” - MinneapolisFuckingRocks.com .. .. “it feels like the late nights spent on porches across America at the end of a party where those remaining are a little too drunk to get home and so sit, smoke cigarettes and wait for sobriety or dawn, whichever comes first.” – Cakein15.com .. .. “The song “In The End I Went Away” has a hazy sheen over it’s americana roots. Banjos sound distant, guitars and vocals are distorted and loneliness and pain are the overriding emotions. In other words it’s wonderful.” - Songs:Illinois .. .. “They aren't perfect but that's what makes them special.” - Music Emissions .. .. “Western Fifth sing a sad little song with perfectly placed piano bits and vocal howls that tug at the heartstrings, making for a great soundtrack to a cold night warmed only by whiskey and neon signs in a dive bar...sounds like a dirtier, grittier Wilco, with a touch of Up Records-era Modest Mouse, thanks to their howling guitars and strange, raspy voices." MFR .. .. “The five-piece plays slow, atmospheric songs with a confidence that makes it sound like it has been doing this for decades.” – St. Paul Pioneer Press .. .. "There are many, many points in the music where a lethargic phrase all of a sudden takes a breath and then slams into you with what can only be called full-on lethargy, akin to being broadsided by a bus." - howwastheshow.com .. .. “Dark and perverse” – 30music.com

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