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The Handsome Family's (aka Brett & Rennie Sparks) eighth album 'Honey Moon', is a collection of love songs "featuring tales of intimate insects and lovers kissing in wet caves", released to mark their 20th wedding anniversary. Maintaining the Gothic Americana Family template of previous albums, 'Honey Moon' blends the baroque with spectral, old-time country atmospherics and shades of bluegrass and ragtime. The cinematic gloominess and image-rich romanticism make The Handsome Family as much an heir to Nick Cave's 'Murder Ballads' as to the current crop of alt-country/folk revivalists, but the banjo and steel guitar keep this sonically rooted in US music traditions.
