You Me & Apollo started as a solo vehicle for Brent Cowles’ soulful, folk-inflected honky tonk. Centered on Cowles’ elastic vocals, which can stretch from warm, rounded croon to Motown falsetto to garage-rocker growl all in one phrase, 2011’s Cards with Cheats boasted solid dustbowl troubadour song craft. YM&A crackles with alt-rock muscle and hell-raising country intensity, while retaining Cowles’ wistful echoes of Otis Redding and Hank Williams. (Michael Walsh)
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