On Stones, Melbourne’s Snowy Belfast play a kind of beardless bushranger folk. The recording is a bit flat, but the drums are clearly meant to thunder, the banjo meant to roll ominously. The biggest problem is singer Esther Holt, whose voice is tuneful but dull, a clean and bloodless chorister’s voice that is just no good for the dark ambitions of their music.
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