The Thrills - The Midnight Choir
The Thrills have jumped the sunny Californian ship in favour of “the worst neighbourhood in all of Canada”. The reason being they wanted a more “intimate, reflective,” album this time. Although it lacks the grating happy go lucky, lolling-ness of ‘Big Sur,’ make no mistake, this new offering is no transition towards Elliot Smith. Unfortunately, The Thrills’ new-found Canadian introspection hasn’t prevented me from referring to them in only the vaguest platitudes: it’s quite nice, at times pretty and all around not a bad effort at all.
