Duets

Self Defense Family is a band as continually interesting as they are musically ambitious. Their new MLP Duets is a featured collaboration between them and Albany singer and "family member" Caroline Corrigan. Here, she and regular Family singer Patrick Kindlon are put together front and center and afforded plenty of time and room with which to collaborate. Duets is five new songs with overlapping themes and a cohesive sound that builds on the band's own distinctive approach but integrates new elements of alt-country and indie rock. Over the course of the record Kindlon's and Corrigan's voices sing against each other, overlap, double back on each other, and break apart, with Corrigan alone singing on the final track. Duets is tuneful and accessible but just as challenging, interesting, and as personally confrontational as the band has ever been. This is a first pressing on limited pink, colored vinyl.