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They come out of Madrid but have more in common with the likes of Belle & Sebastian / Smog / Palace Brothers and Drunk alongside whom they deservedly rank . They share with the above a tendency to line-up changes, stylistic leaps and a use of sampling/spoken word that assures them their own place on the margins of post-rock/art-country. The peculiar atmosphere of found sound collage / sampling intermingled with the Spanish lilt to the English (spoken and sung) is highly effective. The nearest obvious comparison is with Drunk’s expeditions into classical/folk hybrids with a country tinge. The song ‘Low of Defenses’ is typical – drifting sound-scapes, lyrics that seem more Pablo Neruda than your conventional indie-rock fare and a sonic bedrock of Oldham-esque archaic folk-rock (they have fulfilled pick-up band duties with the man with a hundred names in their native Spain). Belle and Sebastian have already sung their praises and they have shared bills with Smog, Kramer, The Magnet