Quilt

VINYL FORMAT. Listening to their self-titled debut, it's no surprise that Shane Butler, Anna Fox Rochinski and John Andrews, the members of Quilt, came together out of a shared love of visual art. While their music is steeped in timeless qualities like the gorgeous harmonies on "Milo" or the twinkling guitar on "Utopian Canyon," the entire record is full of expansive, cinematic moments, Each song can be enjoyed independently, but taken as a whole, the record becomes a world of its own: guitars drift languidly, keys sparkle in and out, of ten following their threads into the stratosphere, and the vocals are at once powerful and intimate, as if these close friends came together amid a whirlwind of life changes and found comfort and inspiration by singing personal moments together in beautiful mutual assurance.