shovels & rope

There's no backing off or backing down on the duo's sophomore set - an album that brims with the confidence, intensity, energy - cutting a new path through the sonic thickets they navigated so nimbly on their fabulous breakthrough 'O' Be Joyful'.

"If there is an American rock movement of the now, this acoustic twosome from Charleston, S.C., is close to the nerve centre." – New York Times, "Cary Ann Hearst & Michael Trent were solid singers & songwriters on their own, but the pairing is truly a thing of magic..." – Filter, "The husband-&-wife duo's chemistry & ramshackle playfulness make them difficult to resist....With only two players — plus judicious additions from horn-playing multi-instrumentalist Nathan Koci - Shovels & Rope touches upon hard blues, early soul, folk revivalism, Laurel Canyon rock & noirish theatricality" – NPR Music.