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Melodic and skewiff, Orkney Islanders Half Cousin are the latest in a growing line of satisfyingly odd songwriters with a good line in unpretentious and unkempt tales of the small town. Half Cousin are Kevin Cormack and musical partner Jimmy Hogarth at the core of the folk'n'roll four-piece, but they sound like a street orchestra with the breadth of instrumentation seeping into these tunes. Their belief in the home-made experimentation with sound seeps into their music, leaping from the fireside shadows, like the skewed backwood blues of Tom Waits, the industrial discordance Einstüzende Neubauten, and the DIY instruments of Harry Partch, but Half Cousin have enough fuel of their own. Information last updated May 2004.
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