3 out of 5

Label: Secretly Canadian

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Two tracks of appreciative subtlety from Dirty Three guys Jim White and Mick Turner, that would probably be more appreciated on a full length.

To over-simplify: Take all the slow bits from Dirty Three’s Whatever You Love and minus out the strings.  Voila – Tren Brothers.  …Which is rudely stamping on the nuance here, which is definitely evident on B-side Kit’s Choice, as it pulses with a tad more life than A-Side Gone Away, and it also dismisses the sincere beauty of these two compositions.  The tracks are good.  Gone has a nice, slow, funereal march feel to it, pluckings and those tap-rattle Jim White drums, while Kit sprinkles some harmonica and keys atop, making it feel much more like a full track than the sort of glimpse sensation – stepping into the room to hear part of a session – that Gone Away offers.  But like a lot of these here-and-gone 7″ releases, I’m not sure its enough to entice me to hear more.  For better or worse it just primes you to want some Dirty Three.  I definitely would’ve checked an album of this out, based on the pedigree, and possibly these two songs would feel more at home surrounded by others that could extend and massage the intended mood.  (Extend?  Massage?  Sure.)