King Margo is Lucciana Costa and Rachel Coats, who grew up 40 minutes apart but didn't meet until many years later in the middle of a Kentucky field.
In anticipation of their second record, King Margo has matured into a more evolved sound. The state of the world has us all sitting a little straighter these days. The songs are more personal. The arrangements are more intricate, featuring soaring harmonies that have captured listeners across the country. "She never boarded up the windows/Grandma likes to say/She rode out every storm/Frying chicken just the same," opens the song "Monsters," inspired by a conversation overheard in a New Orleans coffee shop. The girls pay homage to their upbeat roots with the open-relationship-themed country jam, "you can hang your shirt wherever you like, so long as you hang your hat with me." There are songs of love, murder, tornados, and religion. They are songs carefully crafted after a long year of hibernation and a new awareness of how lucky it is to bring music to the world.