“This is where the stars come crashing down,” Matt Hebert sings in a raspy voice (like The Frames’ Glen Hansard or The Dears’ Murray Lightburn) on Haunt’s first track “The Sea and The Soul.” And just as he does, it’s not the stars that come crashing, but the explosive guitars. For years, Hebert has led the alt. country outfit Ware River Club, a band more aligned with Uncle Tupelo than 90′s alt rock, but on his second album as Haunt, Hebert positions his music somewhere between the fuzz of Bob Mould and the pop of Matthew Sweet. Without doubt, multi-instrumentalist Jose Ayerve of Spouse has a lot of input on this CD, helping keep things simple but adding a rattle and hum to the music that dirties it up a bit more than Hebert’s previous work.

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