Warm Currency are the duo of MP Hokins and Mary MacDougall, who began working together alongside Christopher Schueler in Vincent Over The Sink before morphing into The Bowles. A decade on, this new project carries on the murky-song forms of the past two.
Returns is a set of haunting and minimal folk songs. Simple, minimal melodies played of acoustic guitars and piano are nestled within layers of field recordings, soft drones, and tape loops and hiss. The tracks are spoken or sung in hushed voices as though incanting a spell or a prayer. A release that fits well within a kind of post-Kye trajectory (as though Lambkin turned to song instead of composition), or as a a long-lost Xpressway group in the vein of Galbraith or the Jefferies brothers.
-Mitch (Repressed Records)