Love is blazing high for the roots rock of The Yearlings (4 out of 5 stars)
Back from a very long time: The Yearlings, that fine Dutch representative of alt.country, americana, rootsrock or whatever you want to call it. Their previous album after their hometown (Utrecht, 2005). Then it fell silent.
Now they are back again, after three or four years of writing and modelling under the radar. The love for this band flares up heavily on Skywriting, an album on which you can hear everything that makes this band so special: the acoustic foundation, the melancholy of the uplifting kind and those artisan, warm songs of course, from the beautifully harmonious singing by tandem Niels Goudswaard / Olaf Koeneman.
Engineers/producers Jordi Langelaan and Martijn Groeneveld recorded it all beautifully transparent, in all its vast lightness. We hear echoes from The Jayhawks, Wilco, Ryan Adams and also R.E.M. at the time of Out Of Time, complete with mandolin and jangle guitar à la Peter Buck.
What a respectable rebirth.
(This review was publisched in Dutch national newspaper ‘The Volkskrant’ on november 18, 2018. Written by dutch music journalist Menno Pot)