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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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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