It’s always nice to hear something a little bit friendlier when you’ve been drowning in a sea of, erm…less friendly stuff.
The Beauty Shop, a trio from Illinois, make raw and gentle slightly anti-folk songs. Listening to Monster is so easy, it just flows through your ears and doesn’t get annoying.
With beautiful acoustic guitar to […]

The third album from The Beauty Shop continues to gain the band fans and critical acclaim, building on the underground success of Yr Money Or Yr Life and Crisis Helpline.
The opening track of the album, Monster, bears a startling similarity to Fairytales & Lovesongs by All One Surface but […]

The Beauty Shop (aka John Hoeffleur) play a noirish Americana that has a jauntiness in the tune that acts to cover the sometimes darker lyrics. The contrast works well and the songs here have attitude and catchiness a plenty.
While they are already a couple of albums old in their native Illinois the UK is given […]