Hermione Hoby 

Court Yard Hounds: Amelita – review

Martie Maguire and Emily Robison's second post-Dixie Chicks album is sunny and agreeable, but lacks bite, writes Hermione Hoby
  
  


Sisters Martie Maguire and Emily Robison are now on their second post-Dixie Chicks album (the Texan trio have been "on hiatus" since 2008) and have moved away from that band's kitschy, country charms and into a more folk-inflected sound. It's more tasteful, maybe, whatever that means, but it's also a little boring and lacking in bite. This record is so blandly agreeable and sunny that it seems almost like self-parody that its first track should be called Sunshine. There's a brisker, more persuasive earworm in Amelita but otherwise little here that really sticks.

 

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