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Carbon Based Lifeforms
CBL combines the atmospherice ambient soundscapes of some of the other groups we've been listening to in the last 6 months with some downtempo beats to make a more approachable and easier listen than, say a Biosphere. (Nov '06)
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Noah Georgeson
Here's the scene: the party is cranking and you put in some Noah. Suddenly the speakers leap with a deep baritoned dude singing over a minor key plucked guitar and maybe some other flutes or childrens toys in the background. A cinematic orchestra score sounding like it's being played out of that speaker you put on your car window at the drive in theater. People go running for the doors and/or beg you to change the music. We love it. (Nov '06)
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Great Lake Swimmers
A nice new one from GLS. (Mar '09)
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The Handsome Family
A nice new one from The Handsome Family (Apr '09)
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Vetiver
A nice new one (Feb '09)
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Speck Mountain
Beautiful disc in the style of Mazzy Star (Mar '09)
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DM Stith
Dark and hypnotic (Mar '09)
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Bosque Brown
Lazy drawl americana. (Mar '09)
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Other Lives
Beautiful ballad-laden Americana (Mar '09)
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Akron/Family
More goodies from the Akron/Family. (May '09)
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Robyn Hitchock & The Venus 3
We think some of the quirkyiness is lost when Hitchock plays with a group. In this case, the Venus 3 probably steer Hitchock futher towards bluesy and more standard rock songs. (Feb '09)
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Midival Punditz
Less Indian influence in this new one (Mar '09)
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The Lovetones
Spinning this one (Feb '09)
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Miranda Lee Richards
We've waited 8 years for this, the follow up to her brilliant debut album in 2001. The wait was worth it, as Miranda picks right back up from where she left off with her psychedelic chamber folk rock. (Feb '09)
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The Phantom Band
Fantastic straight up pop/rock album. There might be one or two throwaways here, but just about all of the songs are strong if not outstanding. Howling and Throwing Bones just rock. (Feb '09)
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Lily Allen
Bright and shiny pop (Feb '09)
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Animal Collective
Experimental rock (Jan '09)
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Fiction Family
Like The Phantom Band, here's another very good straighforward pop/rock album. These guys also cover a lot of ground and are able to blend some radioheadesque and some country/bluesy elements on the same disc making it hang together really well. (Jan '09)
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Phosphorescent
Heaps of layered reverb-drenched vocals on slow country-folk beats gives this disc a sparse and lush sound at the same time. It's simply brilliant. (Oct '07)
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Espers
We are sneaking in an older (2004) release here, but after getting turned on to Vetiver, how could we resist Espers?
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Christopher Bissonnette
The joneing for dark haunting ambient soundscapes isn't out of us just yet - despite all the albums from that genre we picked up at the end of 2008. So, we go back (this one is from 2004) in the catalog and get this one - a disc that's very similar in texture to Biosphere's Shenzhou ...
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Robert Henke
... and this one, another 2004 pick which is also pretty similar to Shenzhou.
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