My Top 2000 Songs #1184: And What Fallout
I've long had great love for aughts-era North Carolina indie band The Kingsbury Manx . Their first two albums in particular--the 2000 eponymous debut and 2001 follow-up Let You Down --present a gorgeous blend of pastoral contemporary freak-folk and Pink Floyd 's early 70s gentle psychedelic folk -rock songs. By their fourth album, 2005's The Fast Rise And Fall Of The South , their music remained perfectly pleasant, though not consistently capturing the headphone-friendly cosmic Americana of their earlier work. However, "And What Fallout!," whose chorus provides the album its title, is among the band's most distinctive stand-alone tracks. From the gentle finger-picked acoustic guitars to the infectious chorus, propelled by double-tracked vocals and harmonies, it feels like a hazy autumn afternoon lying back on the lawn as the sun starts to fade into the horizon. There's nothing obviously psychedelic about the track, but something in its enveloping vibe i...
