"The plan was to start driving north and not go home to Los Angeles until I was done with a record," Five Easy Hot Dogs is a collection of instrumental recordings from Mac's time on the road.
Combining a strong, Jazzy vocal style with often frank lyrical content recounting tales of love and loss, Winehouse is a truly talented songwriter with a good ear for melody, making this album an essential purchase.
Absent are the scrunchy chords and rhythmic temper-tantrums that made Broad Shoulders, the Gainesville band's first full-length, so mesmerizing. In their stead, Mediumship favors dynamics and depth and space to explore.