Ballads

Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney of the radio duo Time Is Away have put together an idiosyncratic take on the idea of the “ballad” and it’s amazing. A compilation album that reveals the specific taste of Time Is Away more than any particular idea, Ballads ties instrumental guitar and synth pieces to strange Luxembourgish singing and makes it work. This is a world of combined longing and happiness, a sort of northern saudade.