Baskery

Coyote & Sirens

Salvaged songs from the Bondesson sisters.

Due to a music industry in turmoil Coyote & Sirens, Baskery’s fourth album, almost never saw the light of day. Signed to a major label and relocated to Los Angeles from their Nashville base, the Swedish folk-rock band of sisters Greta, Stella and Sunniva Bondesson ended up out on their ear and fighting to get their songs back when the execs holding the purse strings got cold feet about the whole thing.

Thankfully, justice prevailed, and so we have this collection of Americana with a distinctly Nordic twist, a sense of wildness twitching at the borders, the trio marvelling at the stray cats and coyotes making the urban jungle their playground. At their poppiest, Baskery could easily go up alongside the likes of the Dixie Chicks or even Haim, yet there’s a raw raucousness and spiky attitude to their music and lyrics that contrast beautifully with their honeyed vocals, jabbing like splinters snagging velvet.