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Snowblink
Thinking you got your normal girl sings indie pop record here until you hear the first tune (Pray for Surf) and you realize there's something a little deeper with this one. (Aug '12).
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Beth Jeans Houghton & the Hooves of Destiny
Orchestrated, big, expansive ... we're tempted to file this one under our show-tunes genre folder. Guess we shouldn't have expected otherwise from another strong female lead act on the same label as Goldfrapp. (Feb '12)
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Bhi Bhiman
Solid! Lyrical wit crooned out against a playful country tinged background makes this one live up perfectly to the expectations set by the cover art. "what chew talking 'bout business trips, you work at the mall." (Jan '12).
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The White Buffalo
The big guy is getting big in SF: We saw him play to ~90 people @ Hotel Utah in March, to ~350 @ Cafe du Nord 3 months later in July, then to tens of thousands @ Hardly Strictly in Oct. His show is killer. Looks like word of that spread quickly in SF. (Feb '12)
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Case Studies
Sparse, baritoney singer songwriter sings against multi-girl harmonies in our favorite record of the year. (Aug '11)
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Quilt
Nice jangly, reverb drenched guy/girl pychedelic twee folk. Reminder us of early Essex Green. (Nov '11)
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Perfume Genius
Beautiful, slow, haunting songs as one guy struggles with his sexuality in front of a mic and piano. (June '10)
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King Creosote & Jon Hopkins
Lovely, lonely, slow Scottish seaside story and soundscapes. Stellar. (May '11)
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The White Buffalo
Big guy with big voice belting out some country ballads, shitkickers, and even a little yodeling. Great album. (Mar '09)
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Jane Weaver
Beautiful lifting, droning pychedelic folk concept album. (May '10)
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Credit to Anton for keeping at it and trying new things musically, but the only thing here that really succeeds is with Felt Tipped Pictures of UFOs, when he throws out the rock song pretenses andprogrammed drums and just gives us a lovely soundscape. (Jan '10)
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Daniel Durrett
We were impressed with this: electronic rockers, slowly cresendoing walls of sounds and textures, tribal chants, film scores. We were blown away watching him perform this live with a guitar, mic, ipad, and loop pad! Unfuckenbelievable. (Feb '10)
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Jane Weaver
Slow developing beautiful songs, with O' To Be In This Land really shinning. (Dec '07)
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Bhi Bhiman
Gotta buy this album just to hear the good ole country yodeling from a SF based Sri Lankan. Seriously, we haven't heard yodeling done this well since Roy Rogers's Sons of the Pioneers. Bhi throws in some reggae and blues inspired tunes, a good ole jazz torch song and a hawaiian uke tune as well, covering just about every old timey music genre you can think of except the sea shanty. (Dec '07)
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