Subway Songs & Cowboy Songs
two new records from
Balthrop, Alabama
Subway Songs
a paean to Elliott Smith and 5 other death-rockin’ tunes
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Cowboy Songs
a small-town love-tragedy and 5 other twangers
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About Balthrop, Alabama
In 2006, Alabama-born songwriter-siblings Pascal and Lauren Balthrop moved to New York City to start a band and ended up founding a town. “Balthrop, Alabama” (population 11 or so) is their bustling folk rock township.
Musically, the band straddles the fine line between antebellum and antifolk, reconstructing indie pop with songs of love, dead people, and dead people in love. In 2007, they released their double-album debut, “Your Big Plans and Our Little Town,” on the nascent End Up label, to be followed up by a series of EPs, of which “God Loves My Country” is the first.
