This Orlando quintet come from the Red House Painters school of emotional hard knocks, as the lonely piano riff of the title track to their second EP bears a remarkable resemblance to Mr. Kozelek?s ?Mistress? and singer Bruce Reed gets the breathy, forlorn, ?poor, poor, pitiful me? vocal inflections down pat. His sexy, deliberate, Mark Knopfler-meets-Steve Kilbey vocals on ?Oh Captain, My Captain? imbue the track with a distinct Church vibe, which is borne out by the meandering ooze of its musical accompaniment ? sort of like psychedelic molasses. The short acoustic finale, ?Seeing the Path? needs to return to the drawing board to add more than a saloon-styled piano riff to warrant another listen, but overall the EP shows that Kingsbury have hit upon a formula as ?an American Church? that is unique and worthy of further exploration. 8/10 --
Jeff Penczak (1 July, 2005)