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Shovels & Rope
01. The Devil Is All Around
02. Bridge on Fire
03. After The Storm
04. Fish Assasin
05. Coping Mechanism
06. Pinned
07. Swimmin Time
08. Stono River Blues
09. Ohio
10. Mary Ann & One Eyed Ban
11. Save the World
12. Thresher

Shovels & Rope is a Charleston, South Carolina-based duo consisting of Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent. They perform as an energetic two-piece band, stirring up a righteous racket with two old guitars, a handful of harmonicas, the occasional keyboard, and a junkyard drum kit harvested from an actual garbage heap and adorned with tambourines, flowers and kitchen rags. 

There's no backing off or backing down on Swimmin' Time, the duo's highly anticipated sophomore set as Shovels & Rope, an album that brims with the confidence, energy and sinew of a band that's accustomed to treating their career as a marathon, rather than a sprint. The album, recorded at the studio Michael Trent constructed in the couple's home, finds them cutting a new path through the sonic thickets they navigated so nimbly on their breakthrough bow, O' Be Joyful - a disc that won rave reviews from outlets like Mojo (which called it "thrilling") and Filter, which said "[they] were solid singer-songwriters on their own, but this is truly a thing of magic."

Highly Recommended

August 2014

Shovels & Rope - Swimmin Time

Shovels & Rope

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