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In the Air | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Handsome Family
Label: Carrot Top Records
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $7.96
You Save: $6.02 (43%)
New (15) Used (5) from $4.89
Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 125758
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 789397002322
EAN: 7893970023222
ASIN: B00004RDHK
Release Date: February 15, 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | Don't Be Scared | | • | The Sad Milkman | | • | In the Air | | • | A Beautiful Thing | | • | So Much Wine | | • | Up Falling Rock Hill | | • | Poor, Poor Lenore | | • | When That Helicopter Comes | | • | Grandmother Waits for You | | • | Lie Down | | • | My Beautiful Bride |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Chicago's Handsome Family draws its inspiration from traditional murder ballads, but unlike the Carter Family, whose name they pun, Brett and Rennie Sparks do it out of a fascination with the macabre rather than a familiarity with it. In the Air, the couple's fourth album, chronicles a world full of death, snakes, dark highways, and sad milkmen. To the Sparkses (Rennie writes the lyrics; Brett sings them), this world isn't bleak or bizarre, it's beautiful--and vivid. Here a man isn't simply skinny, he's "thin as the bow of his black violin." And here, when William got killed, the murderer lingered and "watched as his blood ran through dead grass / Watched as the black ants crawled through his hands." And somehow, through Brett's sonorous baritone, Rennie's breathy melodica, and guest Andrew Bird's violin, even such violence seems ultimately peaceful. --Anders Smith-Lindall
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 The Handsome Family rules the alternative scene November 10, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Brett and Rennie Sparkes are the Flannery O'Conners of alternative music in the USA.
The perfect companion to Through The Trees August 4, 2003
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Another great CD from the Handsome Family who seem to be mining a mother load of incredibly haunting and beautifully crafted songs. From what dark, dank and creaky cragg of subjective experience do these lyrics come from? My god, I have never heard anything like it, and all I know for sure is that I want more and more. Thank you very much Brett and Rennie.
Good Stuff March 7, 2003
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Excellent and unique music that shines in a rotten world of mass marketed sexy boy radio [stuff]. Goth country describes this. Imagine old style country meets Tori Amos and Tom Waits.
Dark, disturbing and funny August 16, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a superb country / folk album which takes the everyday and the banal and places them in dark and unsettling settings.Despite the macabre backdrops there is a twisted and superb humour to be found in places that prevents depression setting in. My favourites are "The Sad Milkman", "So Much Wine" and "Poor, Poor Lenore" I am not sure if Rennie's lyrics are the result of hours of intense agonising or spring easily and naturally from her mind, but which ever is the case they are wonderful. The deep resonating voice of Brett is perfect for the black images that the lyrics contain. The result of their partnership is this beautifully crafted album.
I dare you to take this out of your cd player December 11, 2001
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A few years back a friend of mine from the midwest introduced me to The Handsome Family-- I think I need to buy that man a drink.
In the Air is their best work. The dark, brooding, and yet humorous nature of their music will get under your skin. I just can't seem to take it out of my player (unless to listen to Twilight, their latest).
If you are new to The Handsome Family, I implore you to pick up this cd.
If you already have, all their albums are fantastic. Although I must warn that one of their first, Odessa, disappointed me. Very rough around the edges. Which, of course, only means that each album is getting better and better.
So pour yourself a whiskey, sit on the porch with your bb gun and listen to the magic of The Handsome Family.
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