Little is being said about this band, but judging by their label's (StarTime) past successes including the red-hot Futureheads this band is worth taking note. "As nothing stands on its own too long these days before getting knocked down by the inevitable avalanche of hype it's best to be low key about this one. This band is great, the music is great, and once you hear it you'll know that. It's best to listen now rather than later." - StarTime[ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. An album of dense pop that justifies the band's place among top songsmithing contemporaries like Cass McCombs and James Mercer, as well as Bowie. But the band is able to bypass the songwriter label by delivering a much more collective sound. African high-life guitars are countered with new wave wash; the sound of a band daring to keep its palette open to most any influence, from U2 to The Feelies. Foreign Born deliver the soundtrack for the backyard BBQ of the ages.

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An album of dense pop that justifies the band's place among top songsmithing contemporaries like Cass McCombs and James Mercer, as well as Bowie. But the band is able to bypass the songwriter label by delivering a much more collective sound. African high-life guitars are countered with new wave wash; the sound of a band daring to keep its palette open to most any influence, from U2 to The Feelies. Foreign Born deliver the soundtrack for the backyard BBQ of the ages.

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An album of dense pop that justifies the band's place among top songsmithing contemporaries like Cass McCombs and James Mercer, as well as Bowie. But the band is able to bypass the songwriter label by delivering a much more collective sound. African high-life guitars are countered with new wave wash; the sound of a band daring to keep its palette open to most any influence, from U2 to The Feelies. Foreign Born deliver the soundtrack for the backyard BBQ of the ages.

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Their sound is a dark, acoustic, psychedelic mixture of influences that range from Roy Orbison and John Lennon to The Fall, Primal Scream, The Jesus & Mary Chain, and Brian Eno. Armed with energetic songs that sound larger than life, a complex and almost hypnotic draw on percussion, and an Eno-esque shoe-gazed lead guitar, all melded together by the ghostly driving force of the bass, it's clear that Foreign Born is a band not to be ignored.[ read more ]

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That Foreign Born love all shades of things bright, open, and at least partially U.K.-inspired, can be heard from the opening song on Person to Person -- "Blood Oranges" has soaring guitar, emotional vocals courtesy of Matt Popieluch, a thick and swooning charge, and a sense that the band's record collection -- or iTunes playlist, depending -- contains a fair amount of familiar suspects past and present, like U2, the Chameleons, James, Interpol, Snow Patrol, and more besides. But    [ read more ]

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