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americana/folk
Oh My God Charlie Darwin, the painstakingly hand-crafted second album from this Rhode Island trio, is — evolutionary inspirations aside — about the furthest thing imaginable from the artily esoteric, operatic take on On the Origin of Species recently released by Swedish synth-pop duo The Knife. OMGCD is warm, familiar, organic and unspeakably comforting. And yet, despite its seeming traditionalism, there is a certain otherness and singularity to the record's hushed, solemn, neo-gospel folk ballads (which are somewhat incongruously complemented by a trio of raucous, haggard-voiced stompers) — a sparse aesthetic purity and an achingly forlorn beauty, polished but faded, which makes their music feel, indeed, both low-key and anthemic.