The River Detectives - Blue Collar love Song

Hailing from Motherwell but with their feet firmly in the mid west, The River Detectives give us a confident single with their influences clear for all to see. Like your mum in the garden, Blue Collar Love Song potters along, in a spectacularly pleasant and homely way. "The radio's playing something about saying goodbye," say their lilting harmonies, but the same duet quickly reverts to fatigued clichés, leaving a train on the tracks, a telephone ringing as she walks away, and a worry about turning into something new, or something. An appendage to the genre without being a notable addition. [Michael Duffy]