Album Review: What Will We Do by Lula Wiles

Album: What Will We Do
Artist: Lula Wiles
Release Date: January 25, 2019
Favorite Tracks:
Thoughts: “Love Gone Wrong,”  “If I Don’t Go,” “Good Old American Values,” “Shaking as it Turns,” “Morphine,” and “What Will We Do.”

Lula Wiles is the folk/roots music trio of  Isa Burke, Ellie Buckland, and Mali Obomsawin, who met at Berklee College of Music in Boston.  Their harmonies and spare arrangements are reminiscent of The Be Good Tanyas and Crooked Still (and the various bands and solo acts that have emerged from those bands). Their music has a melancholy sound that makes me want to weep happy tears. It’s also steeped in the fine folk tradition of melding the personal and political, such as songs like “Good Old American Values.”

  The full album is currently available via NPR’s First Listen.

Rating: ***1/2