“Where do "creepy" and "soothing" meet? Like Cass McCombs, John Southworth has found hospitable grounds for these competing ideas in Laurel Canyone folk-rock, which can sound beautiful and benevolent one second and unsettlingly medicated the next. "Ode to the Morning Sky" puts his gentle, dulcet croon over a warm corona of acoustic instruments—guitars and grand piano and pillowy backing vocals. It'”
