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Kacy & Clayton & Marlon Williams “Plastic Bouquets” (New West, 2020)

December 15, 2020 Peter Tomkins 0
A collaboration from opposite sides of the globe. Kacy & Clayton from Saskatchewan in Canada and Melbourne-based New Zealander Marlon Williams. This combination leads to a mouthful of a name; but more importantly, to an album […]
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Video: Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams “I Wonder Why”

November 18, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
The combination of voices on ‘I Wonder Why’ is breathtakingly good.  The vocals float above layered instruments, with the exquisite pedal steel the highlight.  In the video, we get to see the performers at work in […]
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Video: Kacy & Clayton “That Sweet Orchestra Sound”

February 12, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
Two minutes in, shortly before it finishes, the pace changes suddenly and draws you into this new single from Kacy & Clayton; it’s a good example of the quality of their song writing.  ‘That Sweet Orchestra […]
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Kacy & Clayton “Carrying On” (New West, 2019)

September 30, 2019 Mike Elliott 0
“Should’ve married for money, like any woman in her right mind would do / instead I settled for love and don’t you know that that’s the worst thing you can do.” So begins ‘The Forty-Ninth Parallel’, the […]
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Kacy and Clayton announce UK dates for 2020, release new single

September 25, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
‘That Sweet Orchestra Sound’ is the new single by Canadian psych-folk second-cousins Kacy & Clayton. The track is taken from the new album ‘Carrying On’, due out via New West Records on 4th October. The 10-song […]

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