The Handsome Family on AMG website
Monday, 27th April 2009
Good overview of the Handsome Family and new album Honey Moon on the AMG site with track previews.www.allmusicguide.com
Handsome Family in Time Out
Sunday, 26th April 2009
"... Tracks like 'The Loneliness of Magnets' are fitting testimony to one of music's most madly romantic partnerships."- - - - - - - - - -
Handsome's on BBC Ulster
Saturday, 25th April 2009
Ralph McLean ran a full feature on the new Handsome Family album on his 'McLean's Country' show last week.Darling My Darling, The Loneliness Of Magnets, The Petrified Forest and Wild Wood can all be heard via the listen again via the BBC iPlayer
Online Reviews (overviews)
Friday, 24th April 2009
The Independent website are running an online summery of all the glowing feedback for Honey Moon;"There's a burnt beauty to 'Honey Moon' – something akin to Mark Twain re-written by Edgar Allan Poe – that exerts a deliciously morbid pull on...
A.V. Club
Tuesday, 21st April 2009
Brett and Rennie Sparks have been married and making music for more than a decade, and over that time, they’ve settled into a signature sound combining Brett’s deep baritone and penchant for mid-tempo alt-country balladry with Rennie’s...
Paris Motel makes noises
Tuesday, 21st April 2009
We are very pleased to confirm that Paris Motel are/have been back in the studio and we will be expecting to hear more later this year.For all of you on facebook you can view studio pictures here.
BBC Online
Monday, 20th April 2009
Full review online now - www.bbc.co.uk/music..."There's a burnt beauty to Honey Moon – something akin to Mark Twain re-written by Edgar Allan Poe – that exerts a deliciously morbid pull on the imagination and the emotions. Satisfaction is...
Handsomes in The Times
Monday, 20th April 2009
Having spun six albums of country-noir vignettes, the Albuquerque husband/wife duo Brett and Rennie Sparks finally deliver their maiden album of love songs. Heaven forbid, however, that the clichés of such a familiar idiom be used as a creative...
VJCD185 - The Handsome Family - 'Honey Moon'
Monday, 20th April 2009
Press Release VJCD185 - 'Honey Moon'Released: April 20th 2009 * Press Release (pdf) - 312kb * Press Release (Word) - 268kbAlbum Cover 'Honey...
Handsome's in Mail on Sunday
Sunday, 19th April 2009
Bluegrass and folk have been the staple ingredients of the alt. country revival, not least for husband-and-wife duo The Handsome Family...
Honey Moon in Independent
Friday, 17th April 2009
Though being by The Handsome Family, they're love songs with a curious purchase on the mystical undercurrents of reality, pivoting on those points where the natural world rubs up against intimations of spirituality. Sung by Brett in the booming...
Daily Mirror: Honey Moon
Thursday, 16th April 2009
4/5Country's odd couple continue to make strangely twisted but emotionally ravishing music. This silky and mysterious offering mixes songs about love and nature with wry humour, dark longing with a little of what's sweet and sticky.Yum!- Gavin...
Now Magazine
Wednesday, 15th April 2009
The eighth studio album by Albuquerque’s Handsome Family commemorates the 20th wedding anniversary of Brett and Rennie Sparks, the band’s two members. As such, it’s an album of love songs, making it a departure from the Gothic Americana...
Q: Honey Moon
Wednesday, 15th April 2009
Brett and Rennie Sparks celebrate 20 years of matrimony with eighth album of gothic country. As always the haunted lyrics bear a quaintness that seems so archaic you can almost hear the cogs whirring away inside. Lovers collide and separate, kiss...
Note Books entry from Rennie Sparks
Tuesday, 14th April 2009
The Note Books series features musicians discussing their literary side. Past contributors have included John Darnielle, John Vanderslice, and others.The Handsome Family releases their new album, Honey Moon today, and it is truly an honor and...
Honey Moon - OUT NOW
Tuesday, 14th April 2009
The new Handsome Family album Honey Moon is out nationwide this coming Monday (April 20th) through all good shops and download sites. You can pre-order it as of this Thursday (16th) direct from the Loose shop.You can read all of the press...
Honey Moon: Uncut
Tuesday, 14th April 2009
"a dozen songs of romantic yearning from deep within their own strange world... Modern romance then - but not as we know it"- Rob Hughes, UncutYou can read the review here or in the latest issue of Uncut magazine.
Maverick: The Handsome Family
Monday, 13th April 2009
Jeremy Searle caught up with Brett and Renne Sparks for the latest issue of Maverick Magazine to discuss their audiences, New Zealand, marriage, Darwin, line dancing and ultimately WYSIWYG!!You can read the interview below or in the latest issue...
Americana UK: Honey Moon
Thursday, 9th April 2009
Not much sweetness oozing from this satellite.They’ve been gradually tramping a path through the damp dark woods of Gothic Americana for some time now....- David Cowling
Handsome's: The Word
Thursday, 9th April 2009
"This is music that is deeply rooted in romance, that feels the push and pull of adult life while placing itself somewhere to the side of it"- Rob Fitzpatrick, The WordYou can read the full article here , or by purchasing the magazine now!
Magnet: The Handsome Family
Wednesday, 8th April 2009
Over the course of 16 years and nine albums, the weird, wonderful world of the Handsome Family has been populated by tales of ghosts, murders, bottomless holes and the mysterious deaths of Nikola Tesla and Amelia Earhart. For the Albuquerque,...
Spin: Honey Moon
Tuesday, 7th April 2009
The songs are an effortless blend of vintage country and pre-rock'n'roll pop, but New Mexico's Handsome Family are no cutesy nostalgia act. On their eighth album, spouses Brett and Rennie Sparks continue to put a brilliantly surreal twist on...
Live Notes
Monday, 16th March 2009
We've added a few dates in April for Arizona and California with our friends from Rhode Island, Barn Burning. These shows will all have local support bands and the show at Modified in Phoenix will be a special Song Trading set with both Robert...
Mr. David Viner - Old Black Crow
Sunday, 15th March 2009
Directed and Animated by Michael Eaton
Diversions ... Murder Ballads
Tuesday, 3rd March 2009
(Diversions, a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with their favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing. They're kicking the series off in style with the incomparable Rennie Sparks, of The Handsome...