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Cheers William!

We always knew there was mileage on having one fast track and one slowie. I prefer the Great Divide myself but that's taste for ya.

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Praise from Plastic Ashtray...

And Rockfeedback prefer the Trouble side:

Well… it’s country music. And though it’s a bit of a muddy recording, it almost suits it.
‘A Great Divide’ is a pleasant, relaxed track, one sounding close to something you might hear on a rubbish MOR American film but without some whiney idiot ruining the music by singing all over it. Here, although Piney Gir’s vocals are very true to traditional country, there’s something much more palatable about this lass’s voice.

Other track ‘Trouble’, a recording designed to show the bands dynamism, is a lot more fun – really rather upbeat, and the much stronger of the two. One of the catchiest lines ‘you’re trouble but I love you so’ explains its whole gist – you know – it’s a light hearted boy and girl country song. Simple, true, but the general structure is fantastic, a catch line in the chorus, a catch line in the verse, catch lines here there and every bloody where. Subtle changes in the verses along with a great little solo provide the build and release of tension before it’s over. Ahh. Lovely.

These songs aren’t over laboured, work as nice casual little ditties, and there’s a lot of things on this recording that hint towards Piney Gir being a really fun live band, though due to their most twee of natures, they’d be one of the sort you would want to see sandwiched between Sunn O))) and Merzbow. Y’know - just to mess things up a bit.