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Album review - Unbunny: Snow Tires
Affairs Of The Heart

by Mark Grassick, first published in LondonTourdates #032 ,3rd October 2008

It would be easy to compare Unbunny to Elliott Smith or Neil Young. Sure, Jardi Del Deo has a reedy voice that is sometimes reminiscent of the latter and there are some double-tracked vocals which echo the former but Unbunny have a lilting prettiness that is all their own.

The best parts lie in Del Deo’s attention to detail, such as the sleepless nights evoked in ‘I Leave Stones Unturned’. Here Unbunny edge closer to Pedro The Lion than Smith or Young.

Snow Tires has an overall ghostly quality that still manages to sound organic. ‘Casserole’ sets the tone, Del Deo’s observations set to a shuffling beat before settling into a lovely descending guitar part. It also provides another example of Del Deo’s way with words: “I’m in the backyard burning leaves in a barrel for the prettiest girl in all of the motor court.” Appropriately, Snow Tires conjures images of slowed down, snowbound, small town America, a sad place encased in layers of understated beauty.

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