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Saturday round up: Arborea, Sam Quinn, Thy Courage Quail, JBM, Small Sur and more!

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A round up of various tracks, videos and fellow bloggers – featured are Small Sur, JBM, Thy Courage Quail, Sam Quinn and The Frontloader & Love Shack, Baby Blogs.

New Music Tuesday – Recommendations: Matthew Barber, Hoquiam, Beach House, Balmorhea & The Pass!

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5 Albums that officially were released today that deserve a better look – enjoy a track from each!

Balmorhea’s new album is on its way, Slowcoustic finds himself breathing a bit easier.

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…new album from Western Vinyl’s resident instrumental alt folk group Balmorhea. Atmospheric and beautiful at is minimum, epic and jaw-dropping at it’s most.

(The) Slowest Runner (in all the World) leave me without words

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Bands with long overly wordy song titles. I don’t know who started this…Well, I found one place where these bastardy named songs work.

Forget Sigur Rós, Iceland has all-girl bands! Amiina bring Iceland’s beauty to the forefront.

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I just wanted to say I am sitting here mouth agape.  Amiina does that.
I haven’t been on the band wagon (no pun intended) for very long and I didn’t find them myself – I believe it was the lovely Agnes over at It All Started With Carbon Monoxide who introduced …

Balmorhea gets remixed, but does it work?

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Balmorhea gets remixed.  But…
Okay, don’t get me wrong, I love Balmorhea and of the artists that I know that are doing the remixing they are impressive (Peter Broderick, Tiny Vipers, Eluvium…).  I am not sure I am completely sold on the full project.  Yes, it has some very nice ambient …

Ending the evening with Peter Broderick

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Goodnight folks, I will leave you with one of the tracks from the newest Peter Broderick album (fittingly the end track).  Just gorgeous use of piano, strings and atmosphere:  he used no other instruments/sounds other than those from piano and violin.  This is the stuff that baffles me in its …

Video: Balmorhea – “Remembrance”

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This is one of the best things I have seen in a while.  Enjoy.
~Smansmith
p.s.  Check out some previous love for Balmorhea (here and here).
p.p.s.  This is up there with that damn fine Damien Jurado video for “Caskets” I posted here.

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