Consumer Guide Album

From the Dirt: Colored Edge of Memory [Partial Lyrics, 2025]
From not just the dirt but the modest Western Maryland city of Frederick come frontman Daniel Kenny's lissome, sweet-murmured, troubled love and local color songs, which he bestows with such titles as "Train Wreck at the Bluegrass Jam," "Afterwards, on the Greyhound," and "The Edge of the World Is a Rounding Error." Regrettably, that old unreliable love has apparently proven a bigger problem: "And we swerved through the years like a drunken affair/Crumpled up like discarded clothes/And I hated myself and I hated her more/For the wreck that I'd made of us both." Kenny sounds like a sweet guy. But he also sounds like someone who's been a drunk so long that he's taken up abstinence. After all, "moderation leaves a hell of a mark." A−