Review from 'Oxfordbands.com'

"...we start the round up with Smokey Angle Shades. They’re a bedraggled, top-hat wearing acoustic four-piece with a Crosby-Stills-Nash & Young setup: 3 guitars plus a bass and all four singing in harmony. And they’re damn good.
Unfortunately these days, it is miraculous when a band gets more than 2 people to sing vaguely in harmony. Thus, any barbershop element inevitably leads to knee-jerk Beach Boys comparisons. But I refuse to stoop to that. The Shades are a cut above those poncy Beach Bums and firmly from the country-blues school of CSNY. Hearts are broken, soulful harmonies are delivered with gusto, and there’s no fucking surf-board in sight. Wrapping up a concise set, the principal hat-wearer shows some deft fiddle-playing skills, adding a touch of flair to an extremely competent performance. Go listen to them up on Myspace... Smokey Angle Shades are the real McCoy."
By B.M. - oxfordbands.com
May 31st, 2008