Willy Vlautin is best known as frontman for alt-country band Richmond Fontaine and as an increasingly renowned fiction author. Now he’s added The Delines to his CV, a band where he takes a background role as songwriter and player with the immediate spotlight falling on singer Amy Boone (Damnations) who possesses a devastating ache and melancholic tone in her voice. Her style perfectly complements the band’s late-night country soul vibe with neon-lit slow-moving scenes that conjure up images of bars, break-ups daily struggles of life and love. Vlautin has penned his finest set of songs on this emotionally rich and moving album.

Chris Familton 

this review was first published in The Music