Julia Haltigan & The Hooligans is a band that has clearly lost track of time. Rather than being hip to the scene of today, this group of New Yorkers is in love with the past. Sounding something like a dusty group of vagabonds Julia and her band of hooligans sound as if they were magically swept in from 1955. Their self titled album is a beautiful, dramatic record that almost sounds like something that would fit in between Patsy Cline, Eartha Kitt, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
With jazzy and country influences, slow tempos, sultry vocals, and smoky harmonies Julia Haltigan & the Hooligans is the very definition of a sizzling hot record. It's vintage feel and laid back vibes give way to some exceptionally nostalgic moments that's are as tender as they are occasionally wayward. Like many of the best classic country and blues songs that sound as if the world was ending, many of the songs on Julia Haltigan & the Hooligans are filled with yearning and heartache and a sense of destruction. As sad and destitute as that might sound that feeling of hopelessness actually makes for some amazingly beautiful songs.
From the heartbreakingly titled, "I Missed the Day I Met You," to the jump up jazzy feel of, "Can't Run Away," Julia Haltigan & the Hooligans throws it's listener into a lovelorn, heartbroken world where songs of desire are the norm. Julia and her band of hooligans may sound like they showed up to the dance about forty years too late but when they're able to write songs as beguiling as the ones on Julia Haltigan & the Hooligans that it really doesn't matter. Nostalgia has never sounded so good.
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