San Francisco Music Blog

Andrew Waits

​Seattle's garage folk due The Dutchess & the Duke claim they wrote their upcoming record, Sunset/Sunrise, with local psych pro Greg Ashley specifically in mind. Ashley produced the follow up to the pair's acclaimed debut, She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke--a raw, honest soundtrack to boozing, brawling, and bawling your way through failed attempts at love.

The first single off Sunset/Sunrise, "Hands," shows how much Jesse Lortz and Kimberly Morrison can do with such a minimalist setup. An acoustic and electric guitar, a tambourine clap, and vocal harmonies that are both sweet and forlorn drive home this beautiful, melancholy ballad of a lost man at stumbling through the sunset of his life and of his connection with a woman in love with another man.

Sunset/Sunrise hits stores Oct. 6.