On their debut album Hymns for Lost Things, Suede & ’Lene — aka Angelo Petraglia and Eulene Sherman — make a serious artistic statement and come about as close to perfection as artists can hope. Both lyrically and musically, the record is infused with the spirit of two of Bob Dylan’s mid-’70s classics, Blood on the Tracks and Desire. The duo’s sophisticated mix of interesting, sometimes tragic characters and sharp social commentary is right on time for a country in crisis. Case in point: “Living in the Country” features a chorus that varies slightly each time, but essentially says, “You ain’t living in the country you used to call free.”
