"I been running all my life, I'm still running," sings Trish Klein, opening Po'Girl's third album, with the drifter's philosophy of a Vancouver quartet who each left home for a life on the musical road in their teens.
Klein is already a queen of the roots scene in the Be Good Tanyas, and Po'Girl share their fellow all-girl Canadian combo's love of wistful harmonies and softly-played olden music, not only vintage folk but gospel and jazz too (especially Allison Russell's clarinet on Go On And Pass Me By and 'Til It's Gone).
Previous album Vagabond Lullabies added too much polish, sacrificing authenticity and soul, but Klein, Russell, Diona Davies and Awna Teixeira now thrive individually and collectively on simple, dustbowl songs that span spirituals to bluegrass, ragtime to murder ballads.
Restless they may be, but truly they have found their home on Home To You.
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