The Children's Hour

I remember when their only album "SOS JFK" came out it was everywhere, I mean in every crappy record shop in Galway, Ireland and nobody seemed to notice but me. And I didn't buy the damn thing. But after falling in love with Josephine Foster all over again this album has slowly become one of my favourite of the last five years.

At the time the Children's Hour toured with Zwan and I assume a lot of people saw them.

Yet there is no ILM thread, and very scarce information about them on the internet. Even after the interest in Josephine Foster and all thing Golden Apples related this album never gets mentioned in pieces about her.

Seriously why?

At the risk of harping on about something nobody cares about....

This album has some of the best songs of the whole New-Weird-America/New-Folk revival etc, The songs seem to gather a momentum until they fold over and back into themselves. Mary in particular peaks with a gorgeous mandolin line that is simultaneously intimate and vast. The production also is very beautiful, nowhere else has Foster's voice sounded so lovely, soft and bell like, like a more strident Vashti, maybe. Although that's a little weak and obvious. The instruments are both crisp and warm and... Really this is a good one. I just don't know why nobody cares that's all.

Disregard if you want, I just think you'd be really missing out. Unless you're about to tell me exactly why I'm full of shit.