Last Missouri Exit’, the debut album by Case Oats, is a remarkably assured record, the band gelling around Gomez Walker’s voice and guitar.‘Last Missouri Exit’ is a collection of sharply drawn character studies, Gomez Walker’s background in creative writing expressing itself in wry observation and a disarmingly easy sense of the lyric, the profound and profane tumbling out of songs like “Bitter Root Lake” with the weight of a confessional poem and the ease of a conversation between friends.
