HTRK - Rhinestones. LP [UK IMPORT]
Black Vinyl edition. Design by Jonnine Standish, Mixed by Nigel Yang, Mastered by Joe Carra.
Boomkat's album of the year 2021 is ‘Rhinestones’, the 5th studio album by HTRK. It finds the duo stripped to a quietly cathartic, windswept arrangement of bare vocals rent with spectral webs of synth and countrified guitar in a wholly inimitable style that’s enveloped and crushed our spirit like nothing else we heard all year. It does that thing so few albums do of feeling entirely familiar, cut from classic material, but skewed just off centre in a way that makes it hit entirely differently. If yr into anything from Dean Blunt to Mark Hollis, Gillian Welch to Slowdive, we’re pretty sure it’ll lodge itself deep in your heart.
- BK