Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs - You Can't Buy A Gun When You're Crying

Here we see indie-pop chanteuse Holly Golightly teaming up with "Lawyer Dave" to make their hastily recorded debut: a gritty country album with a dark heart. There's murder afoot on the foreboding Crow Jane, where the uppity lady in question is told that one day (baby) she's "gonna die" - then her grave is promptly dug "with a silver spade." Meanwhile, incest is heavily implied on I Let My Daddy Do That - the title alone being something of a dead giveaway. With dusty slide guitar backing mournful barroom vocals, You Can't Buy A Gun When You're Crying isn't exactly a chuckle-fest; in fact, it's probably best digested at four in the morning with nothing more than a bottle of Bourbon and twenty Marlboro Red for company. [Barry Jackson]