Album Review: David Kilgour and The Heavy Eights - Left By Soft

For someone who has made so much great music for decades now, it’d be easy to imagine David Kilgour coasting along. Left By Soft is anything but. Part of what made the Clean so legendary, was their live show. Left By Soft sounds like a live album – Kilgour and the band sound as fresh and raw as you could imagine the Clean in their heyday. Kilgour’s guitar is positively unleashed at points. It makes a shift from the more introspective last couple of solo albums The Far Now and the Nashville recorded Frozen Orange (plus also the Sam Hunt project Falling Debris). And it’s good, the band deserving as much credit as Kilgour for releasing a tight sounding and impressive album.

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