Houndstooth - No News from Home (CD)

No News from Home is the 2nd LP from Portland, Oregon quartet Houndstooth and the follow-up to Ride Out the Dark. That record was labeled ""one of 2013's all too overlooked delights"" by SPIN while their hometown Portland Mercury called it ""an extraordinarily good album, a perfect representation of the band's trademark balancing of ease and passion."" News is an altogether more mature record that widens the bands sound: From Velvets-style churners to shimmering, breezy, love songs, all penned by songwriting duo John Gnorski and Katie Bernstein.