Here are the instruments played in Airport Girl: guitar, steel guitar, banjo, harmonica, bass, keyboards, electric piano (how is this different than keyboards?), violin, and trumpet. Nothing wrong with any of this, right? The six, and sometimes eight, members of Airport Girl use these sounds to create a kind of slower tempo folk-rock music with a lot of alternately country and indie rock influences. Admittedly, it is something that could easily become background music if it were not so interesting and well done.
The sound is familiar but there is enough experimentation and wandering with the array of instruments that the familiarity you feel never gets stale. Lead singer Rob Price's voice is unremarkable and with his easy delivery, you're left to simply focus on the sounds of the band. Listen to the notes, man. They do a great job creating a mood. Lyrically, Airport Girl enters the fray (the vaunted NMM fray) as another great contemplative melancholy band that knows how to toe the line between contemplation and whining. However, the lyrics are not the king here. It is the sound that sweeps grandly one second and then seamlessly switches to spare the next.
It's Lefty approved.
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