Georgia-based collective Book Club release sophomore full-length One-Way Moon via on the Cottage Recording Co. (Small Houses) & Bear Kids Recordings. Recorded in Atlanta’s Glow in the Dark Studios with Grammy-nominated producer Matt Goldman, the album follows Book Club’s 2011 debut, Ghost, and their subsequent 2013 EP, Shapes on the Water. The band’s down-home, Americana- and country-infused style of pop shines through on the new project, which was tracked completely live in the studio.
A five piece consisting of cello, upright bass, guitar, minimalist drums, some keys and other stringed instruments, accompanied by riveting, harmony driven lyrics will always be lumped into the folk ranks. They are “more folk than most folk”,…
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…but tread lightly on that pigeon-hole with Book Club — every bit as country as folk, and every bit as rural pop as it is raw American music. No pork pie hats or corny Great Gatsby get-ups, just well-written and infectious melodies coupled with honest songwriting.
Frontman and songwriter Robbie Horlick explained of the organic recording process, “we were about the freshness of it, and it felt good. We were a band, and we played the songs—no smoke, no mirrors.”