With any number of heartfelt and vaguely anthemic indie rock bands helping to see out the first decade of the 21st century in America, it's less of an issue to find an epochal band among them and more of one to find a band that is consistently a pleasure to listen to in its own right. Well into a decade's worth of performances and recording, Early Day Miners manage that feat again on their sixth album, The Treatment, thanks to a sense of everything from classic '60s pop to an ear for keyboards that sh   [ read more ]

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What happens when a band of resolute perfectionists make their most accessible and upbeat rock album - a departure so startling, you almost want to call it "their pop album"? When Early Day Miners loosen up, it's almost a different band. The complex layers and atmospherics are still there, but front-and-center on The Treatment are insistent basslines and straightforward melodies on multiple organs and guitars. One of the poppiest here, "So Slowly," manages to combine a buoyant Cure bassline, a wah-wah solo    [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. What happens when a band of resolute perfectionists make their most accessible and upbeat rock album - a departure so startling, you almost want to call it "their pop album"? When Early Day Miners loosen up, it's almost a different band. The complex layers and atmospherics are still there, but front-and-center on The Treatment are insistent basslines and straightforward melodies on multiple organs and guitars. One of the poppiest here, "So Slowly," manages to combine a buoyant Cure bassline, a   [ read more ]

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What happens when a band of resolute perfectionists make their most accessible and upbeat rock album - a departure so startling, you almost want to call it 'their pop album'? When Early Day Miners loosen up, it's almost a different band. The complex layers and atmospherics are still there, but front-and-center on The Treatment are insistent basslines and straightforward melodies on multiple organs and guitars. One of the poppiest here, 'So Slowly,' manages to combine a buoyant Cure bassline, a wah-wah solo    [ read more ]

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Former ATIVIN fellows, Dan Burton and Rory Leitch, performing quaintly orchestral minimalist Americana, mood-rock song-scapes that dwell in dark shadows? Beautiful and melancholy like HALIFAX PIER, CODEINE, SLINT?

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VINYL FORMAT. Over the course of the last decade Daniel Burton (the man behind Early Day Miners) has become one of the mid-west's best kept secrets. Mentored by Daniel Lanois at his Teatro Studio in Los Angeles, Burton has been putting his project-oriented stamp on a variety of records for the last 10 years. Anywhere from early Songs: Ohia recordings to tribal rumblings of On Fillmore (Glenn Kotche of Wilco's band with the venerable Darin Gray) to the pink noise and melodies of Windsor for the Derby, Burto   [ read more ]

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Over the course of the last decade Daniel Burton (the man behind Early Day Miners) has become one of the mid-west's best kept secrets. Mentored by Daniel Lanois at his Teatro Studio in Los Angeles, Burton has been putting his project-oriented stamp on a variety of records for the last 10 years. Anywhere from early Songs: Ohia recordings to tribal rumblings of On Fillmore (Glenn Kotche of Wilco's band with the venerable Darin Gray) to the pink noise and melodies of Windsor for the Derby, Burton's ideas and    [ read more ]

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While the album is filled with death and ghosts of all sorts, it's unifying theme is the individual's ability to escape the death and ghosts. Even the making of the album was plagued by ghosts and phantoms. Recorded at the Old Mt. Gilead Church - recently revamped into a recording studio and still immediately surrounded on three sides by a dozen acres of 150-year old cemetery - principal tracking for All Harm Ends Here was halted for days at a time on multiple occasions when inexplicable ghostly flut   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. While the album is filled with death and ghosts of all sorts, it's unifying theme is the individual's ability to escape the death and ghosts. Even the making of the album was plagued by ghosts and phantoms. Recorded at the Old Mt. Gilead Church - recently revamped into a recording studio and still immediately surrounded on three sides by a dozen acres of 150-year old cemetery - principal tracking for All Harm Ends Here was halted for days at a time on multiple occasions when inexplicabl   [ read more ]

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On this 6 songs exclusive release for Acuarela (the sonograph EP), Burton's vocals are still hushed, yet ever more confident. Song structures are more concrete and still present is the ever-patient cadence with which Burton, drummer Rory Leitch, guitarist Joe Brumley, bassist Matt Lindblom and violinist Maggie Polk take on the songs. The arrangements, while sparse in comparison to past records, still feel lush, which shows the marks of a life-long appreciation of classic Red House Painters or American Music   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. On this third album by Early Day Miners,the band set out to make what they referred to as "a rock record", one with shorter, succinctly-structured songs,to be recorded mostly live at principle songwriter D Da an n B B r rt to on n's G Gr ro ot tt to o H Ho om me e S St t d di io o in Bloomington,Indiana.They did,in fact,accomplish each of their established criteria.It's interesting, though,how different folks interpret the term "rock". The album does indeed take Early Day Miners one step furth   [ read more ]

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On this 6 songs exclusive release for Acuarela (the sonograph EP), Burton's vocals are still hushed, yet ever more confident. Song structures are more concrete and still present is the ever-patient cadence with which Burton, drummer Rory Leitch, guitarist Joe Brumley, bassist Matt Lindblom and violinist Maggie Polk take on the songs. The arrangements, while sparse in comparison to past records, still feel lush, which shows the marks of a life-long appreciation of classic Red House Painters or American Music   [ read more ]

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