On their second full-length ?Young Family Song?, San Francisco-based Last of the Blacksmiths show they are well steeped in a type of slow-motion Americana, mixing traces of folk, blues, country, and rock that when paired with the organ work sprinkled throughout adds an air of Southern soul to the proceedings. Replete with lyrics of vague reveries, ?Young Family Song? unfolds as a suitable soundtrack for those times of drunken after hours ?introspection?. Vocally, both Nigel Pavao and Nathan Wanta?s warbling tenors come off sounding not all that dissimilar to Will Oldham in places, and whose body of work provides a reference point for the Blacksmiths? sound to a lesser extent. There is a nice warm tone and clarity that imbues these nine songs, though the Blacksmiths rarely stray from their slow-tempo framework fostering a certain level of indistinguishablility among the tracks by album?s end. Conversely, those songs such as ?What You?ve Been Saying? and ?At An Early Hour? that break out of this mold sound downright revelatory in light of this. 6/10 -- David Perron (20 August, 2008)