Watchhouse - Watchhouse
Flyctory.com Pros
- Nice collaboration on the vocal side
- Nice songwriting
Flyctory.com Cons
- Too similar tracks and too few suprises
Having released six albums together, but still releasing a debut album – in case you are unable to solve the riddle around Watchhouse and their self-titled album, look into the bio section of this review. Watchhouse has been released on 13th August 2021.
Watchhouse – About The Artists
Watchhouse is an Americana / folk duo from the USA. They are based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Both, Andrew Marlin and Amily Frantz are vocalists of Watchhose. In addition, Marlin is doing the mandolin, guitar and banjo, while Frantz is rather doing violin and guitar sounds. Watchhouse is in fact their new band name – all previous albums have been released as Mandolin Orange. They are professionally active since 2009 and released their debut album Quiet Little Room in 2010. Especially their most recent album, Tide of a Teardrop (still a Mandolin Orange release) was very successful. It topped the US Heat album charts and went second in the US Folk Charts. After the album, the duo decided to change the branding after more than twenty years of total band history. Thus, Watchhouse is a debut album as well as the seventh release of the two musicians.
Watchhouse – Watchhouse – Track by Track
The nine track album lasts 37 minutes.

1. Wondrous Love
The album start with the thoughful Wondrous Love, which is also the shortest of all songs of the Watchhouse album. A nice song with an Americana touch, which is changing its style significantly towards the end. Not that catchy, unfortunately.
2. Better Way
If I could go walking with you by my side
would you be so unkind, so unkind
You could do all the talking, just speak your mind
Free your mind
The album is playing a lot with memories, thoughts – which makes it sometimes even a bit too hard to follow. This single release (almost six minutes) is a nice quiet piece of folk music. Even though it is rather limited in its sound, it still feels sometime a bit like too much. The long very quiet part in the middle of the song just feels to force me to go for the fast forward button. Finally, the song feels like a three minute track with a three minute outro.
3. Belly Of The Beast
After the first two songs, which came very thoughtful, sometimes almost psychedelic, the Belly Of The Beast has a very friendly folk sound – even though you might argue that the lyrics are not all warm and sunny:
Oh it’s maddening, running to the feast
Hiding from the monsters in the belly of the beast
Just give me your love, it’s all I need
Hide me from the monsters in the belly of the beast
4. New Star
New Star is a nice song, which also gives a strong Americana touch. I like the way the voices work together to create an harmonic sound. Beautiful song.
5. Upside Down
Amily Frantz is taking the lead in vocals in this fifth track, which comes with a lot of echo and atmospheric sounds. Not too bad at all – in fact, the song is a really good listen.
6. Lonely Love Affair
The Lonely Love Affair is having a lot of melodic elements and a clear rhythm. Andrew Marlin is back on the leading role at the microphone. He creates a good atmosphere, a nice listen. But the track could be more catching, I feel.
7. Green Mountain
That’s the way to do long songs: the first fifteen seconds of Green Mountain are silence only. Thereafter, the track becomes are widening instrumental track, which includes guitar elements as well as drums and violins.
8. Beautiful Flowers
Female vocal power again at Beautiful Flowers. I definitely enjoy the tracks in which Frantz is taking over the lead at the microphone. A rather quiet, but very nice collaboration.
9. Nightbird
The closing song starts rather promising, but then is rather loosing energy. The more powerful parts strongly feel like country music.
Watchhouse – Watchhouse – Spotify
Here is Watchhouse on Spotify:
Watchhouse – Watchhouse – My View
Marlin and Frantz do nice music together. They mostly create a gentle mood around their vocals, which drive their songs. Unfortunately, this leads to a rather limited sound. There are rarely loud, surprising elements. I don’t want to call it monotony, but the album is too constant to me.
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Watershed is one of these bands which make you ask yourself "What are these guys doing now?"... and then, surprisingly, ...
Sing meinen Song ("Sing My Song") is definitely one of my favorite German TV music shows. A group of music artist ...
The fourth album by the multi-national project Mighty Oaks on 7th May 2021: boosted by lead singer Ian Hopper in ...
From time to time, I just feel urged to leave my "traditional" track by track review format. For example, when ...
Seasons by the project VINTER is a typical Flyctory.com review. I scanned future new releases in a promotion database and got ...
When I listened to Robert John Hope's solo album debut Plasticine Heart, I felt that I should definitely share these ...
Todd Snider is a quite buzy artist. The Memphis resident, who is having is very own style, is already releasing ...
The naming of Beharie's EPs so far might not be that creative - but his songs are a g good ...
Adam Douglas feels to be rather a Norwegian than a US artist nowadays. He is living in Hadeland North of ...
Even though the name sounds quite German at first sight, this review of Modern Age, the new album by Vanessa ...
Zugzwang (which literally means "being forced to move") sounds like a German album. But in fact, the band Barbarisms, who ...
Some interesting folk music on Flyctory.com: Ray Cooper is in the music business since the 1970's. After working with several ...
The EP Storm in Summer by Skullcrusher to me was one of these records you receive over promotion platforms you ...
Croatian folk-rock with a metal touch? Sounds quite interesting, doesn't it? And, indeed, when I scanned one of the music ...
The Fray is the new album by John Smith. The British singer-songwriter, who is independent and self-funding all his publications, ...
The promotion material to Timo Scharf's new EP Everything Ever Always Is All Forgotten contains a magical sentence. He is writing ...
Frances Luke Accord was one of my first Spotlight interviews in 2021. Among many other topics, we chatted about their ...
Releasing your first EP some one and a half year after you started to learn the guitar feels like a ...
Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night - the two masterminds behind the US folk-rock band Blackmore's Night, are indeed big names ...
More Australian music on Flyctory.com. Down under became more and more popular (and frequent) in my media review section. On ...
I enjoy the collaboration with promotion agencies, which feed Flyctory.com with new music. The key reason for that is that ...
Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
Apart from global mainstream sounds, there are some genres, which have a quite local popularity. The German Schlager is one ...
Since I ran into the music of Korpiklaani at a Lordi gig in Helsinki, I am really a fan of ...
Emma Stevens is not only one of the big names of the British country / folk music scene, she is ...
Frances Luke Accord is a US-American folk music duo, which has been founded during their common time at high school ...
Passenger had a massive hit in 2012, which lead to billions of streams. Even though the solo artist could not ...
It is hard to put a create a good definition of the music Andrew Bird is doing. It is folk, ...
I am a huge critics of the fact that music, especially radio airplay, becomes more and more streamlined. The more ...
All five albums of the 2010's of the US folk rock band Dawes made it to the US overall album ...
I ran into the music of Diana DeMuth some weeks before her debut album release, when I was scanning for ...
The Yonder Boys are definitely an interesting, but also kind of weird and funny combo, which is based in Germany, ...
Riley Whittaker contacted me just some one or two weeks ago. She is a young artist from Sedona, Arizona, who ...
In the recent past, my Spotlight interview section hosted some very interesting young artists as well. For example, I chatted with ...
It's quite a while since I published my latest Spotlight interview episode with Carolyn Miller in mid-June 2020. The more ...
Lori McKenna is regarded to be one of the best female songwriters in the country music scene. On 24th July, ...
Lucy LaForge is the head and lead singer behind Lucy & La Mer. Based in Los Angeles, the singer / ...
Some weeks before the release of their debut EP Petals, the Indie Folk band Phavors contacted me whether I'd like to review ...
Steve Earle is definitely one of the big names in music in general. The country and folk artist had very ...
Due to my cooperation with the Greywood Records Label, I ran into another interesting album, which might be out of ...
Covid-19 has a huge impact on the music industry. My home town Cologne's local country music heroes, Mrs. Greenbird, were ...
Lucinda Williams is quite a big name in the US music business. The 67-year-old, who made it big in folk ...
There are a lot of album release postponements at the moment, as the Corona crisis does not allow the acts ...
Due to my collaboration with Greywood Records, I received a quite interesting CD from the folk song genre: An Ounce of ...
One of the few German country/folk acts, which gained some international reputation in the past is Cologne-based Mrs. Greenbird. Before ...
Mrs. Greenbird was the only Germany-based band who were playing at the C2C debut in Berlin 2019. This definitely illustrates ...
Traveling in Italy
Here are all travel-related postings about Italy:
After my 2025 Women World Floorball Championship Qualification coverage in Lignano Sabbiadoro in Italy, I needed a hotel night close ...
With my recent mileage run and the trip to the World Floorball Championship Qualifications in Italy, I had quite a ...
During my most recent trip to the Emilia Romagna, I also visited the Umberto Panini Collection Motor Museum. Yeah, it ...
Damn, it is already four years... And it is more than 2,750 postings since then. On 25th February 2018, I ...
The last stop of a trip through Italy in late summer 2021 lead me to Volandia, an aviation museum (and ...
Even though people might initially think about Lamborghini and Ferrari when it comes to Italian sports car, Alfa Romeo is ...
I am not a religious person at all. The more, it is somehow remarkable that this posting is already the ...
During one of my most recent trips to Milan, I decided to go for a couple of museums driven by ...
Milan-Malpensa Airport (MXP) is the major of the two airports serving the North Italian city. However, there is one issue ...
Without a doubt, the Scala in Milan is one of the most famous opera houses in the world. While I ...
Even though my summer 2021 trip to the Emilia-Romagna was majorly featuring the two Ferrari Museums in Maranello and Modena, ...
Venice is an iconic place by itself - but it has some real key attractions as well. Without a doubt, ...
New regional carrier: since mid-2021, Bolzano Airport (BZO) is operating scheduled flights with their own carrier, SkyAlps. For an early ...
The place the red cars with the horse in the logo made famous: after I already introduced you to the ...
Al Forsan is one of the two smaller districts of the Expo 2020 ground. Apart from the 360 degrees Opera, ...
A 16th century palace, which has been renovated in the late 1990's and turned into a posh hotel - apart ...
South Tyrol, the German speaking region in Northern Italy is quite popular among tourists. The Dolomite Mountains attract many people ...
Without a doubt, Luciano Pavarotti is one of the biggest music legends in recent history. The Italian is regarded to ...
Until 2018, you could travel to Italy to visit the world largest labyrinth. The Labirinto Della Masone near Parma is ...
When staying in Ferrari City Maranello, would there be any better option than staying in a Ferrari-themed hotel? When I ...
What is happening if you are running and airport and you just don't fine an airline which is motivated to ...
Another weekend, another car rental: for my trip to Italy, which majorly featured a couple Emilia-Romagna automobile history places, I ...
I had the first night of my June 2021 trip to the Emilia-Romagna region right in the South of Lombardy, ...
The place where the story of the famous (typically) red cars started? Walking on the routes of the Ferrari company ...
The area around Parma is almost a holy place for foodie lovers. Parmigiana cheese, tomatoes, pasta - a lot of ...
If you know the name Carlo Pedersoli by heart, then you are likely ready to head to Berlin since 27th ...
While being in Italy in June 2021, I in fact had two car rentals. One was a Volkswagen Golf, rented ...
Fancying a trip to Venice? If there is no pandemic and the lagoon city is empty, hotel prices in central ...
The Stadium of Domitian - or Stadio di Domiziano, as the locals say, may not be one of the classic tourist ...
Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was born on 2nd April 1725 in Venice. The author and adventurer is definitely a legendary Italian ...
Just before I boarded the Nightjet Single Deluxe compartment from Rome to Munich in summer 2020, I had a night ...
For my two day summer stage to Venice, I had one night at the Hotel Abbazia in the heart of ...
I am really fascinated by Leonardo da Vinci and his concepts / inventions. Thus, during my summer 2020 visit to ...
Meeting Caesar about a kilometer away from the Colosseum? Having a picture with the pope? It is not too surprising ...
Apart from Trenitalia and their Frecciarossa network, there is also NRT (Nuovo Transporto Viaggiatori - "New Travellers Transport"), who are ...
After I had a lovely stay on my Four Countries, Four Trains trip in the Hilton Milan and this was ...
Venice is not only the city of vaporetto rides, Murano glass and the doges - it also has quite a ...
After visiting so many German Rail lounges in my life, I was really looking forward how the more exclusive waiting ...
The first "real" night of my Four Countries, Four Trains trip to Italy in summer 2020 lead me to Milan. As ...
As we used to have a holiday home at Lake Garda, I have been to Venice so many times. Also ...
I wouldn't say that I have an intense fear of heights, but I do treat situations, in which I or ...
On my Four Contries, Four Trains trip in summer 2020, my rail trip on Day 2 was an absolute highlight of ...
Also due to the current situation in aviation, I could follow my idea to invest more time in rail travel ...
While - especially for business reasons - trans-European rail connections may still take too much time for daytime transfers, night ...
On 5th September 2020, I had my very first flight from Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE), flying with Eurowings to ...
Culture freaks may argue that Milan is nothing without the Scala and sports fans think about iconic soccer battles - ...
Heading back home. As said in the Day 3 coverage, I did not expect too much going on on that ...
A Day in Rome - for this Day 3 part of the Four Country Train Trip report, I decided to ...
Being in Milan until the early afternoon, checking out an Italian rail lounge for the first time - and then ...
So excited to travel again and do a proper. I did my first day of the rail rides through Germany, ...
After having so many trip reports involving flights and road trips, this trip report will completely leave me on the ...