Western Man is the new album from Daisy House, the California-based duo of vocalist Tatiana Hammond and her multi-instrumentalist father, Doug, and is, in their own words, “an attempt at making the ‘classic pop album'”.
‘Lilac Man’ opens the proceedings, its lyric referencing ancient ideas about the movement of the stars and the planets while its musical setting, arranged around a descending chord sequence evokes the golden years of late 1960s West Coast USA folk-rock.
The theme of supernatural, Faustian bargains epitomised in Robert Johnson’s ‘Cross Road Blues’ provide the springboard for ‘Yellow Moon Road’, although the rocky arrangement calls to mind The Doors with almost murmured vocals, Hammond organ and some blistering fuzz guitar breaks.
Over rolling snares and with a cryptic lyric, which may be about spirit guides, ‘The Defender’ leans towards the folkier end of the spectrum; jangling guitars and tinkling piano underpin this dreamy little number. Lifted by the harmonies of the duo, this is one of the record’s highlights. From: https://klofmag.com/2016/03/daisy-house-western-man-album-review/
