Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter – Marble Son review

Can there be a sweet hereafter for Jesse Sykes after Marble Son? The dive-bar, alt-country sound of Seattle based unit, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, gets a facelift for their fourth album, Marble Son, and strides shamelessly onto shelves. What distinguishes Sykes from other heroines at the helm (like Nico and Neko Case, which she carries the phantasms of in many songs) are the immutably clean guitars of Phil Wandscher. Without Wandscher’s interesting riff collection throughout, keeping you from [...]