"sparkling, elegant and smart..."
-Vanity Fair

"off-kilter country, black humour and a fetching shade of old-time American gothic"
- Daily Mirror

"Blanche's métier is a camp, mischievous take on old-school country"
- Q (4 Stars)

"Blanche inhabit a stylised, old-time world of snake-oil peddlers and starched collars wilted by sin"
- The Observer

"cracked and eerie folk-music with its roots deep in the pre-industrial sod"
-London Evening Standard

"Blanche play spooky, American country/folk that is often darkly, violently funny"
-The Independent On Sunday (4 stars)

“…the sadness on the surface of their debut, which meshes the moody romanticism of Nick Cave with the front-porch elegies of the Carter Family, cuts close to the bone…If We Can’t Trust the Doctors mines the old-time American gothic sensibility of pressing on in the face of misfortune.”
Interview, April 2004

 

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"sparkling, elegant and smart..."
-Vanity Fair

"off-kilter country, black humour and a fetching shade of old-time American gothic"
- Daily Mirror

"Blanche's métier is a camp, mischievous take on old-school country"
- Q (4 Stars)

"Blanche inhabit a stylised, old-time world of snake-oil peddlers and starched collars wilted by sin"
- The Observer

"cracked and eerie folk-music with its roots deep in the pre-industrial sod"
-London Evening Standard

"Blanche play spooky, American country/folk that is often darkly, violently funny"
-The Independent On Sunday (4 stars)

“…the sadness on the surface of their debut, which meshes the moody romanticism of Nick Cave with the front-porch elegies of the Carter Family, cuts close to the bone…If We Can’t Trust the Doctors mines the old-time American gothic sensibility of pressing on in the face of misfortune.”
Interview, April 2004

 

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