Appreciation Night is the debut full-length from the Chicago-based band Bound Stems. The anchor of the album is their hometown, where the din of the elevated train, clattering turnstiles, late night house parties, intimate conversations and the soft crunch of winter's snow are layered throughout the 15 track sequence. The songs themselves, arranged with the intricate precision of a timepiece, are filled with rhythm patterns mirroring youth's reckless abandon, dissonant guitar washes and warm keyboards, all...   [ read more ]

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The Logic of Building the Body Plan is an intricately arranged 26 minutes of pop music founded on secretly complicated rhythmic structures. Male vocals and female harmonies build narratives off scenes summoned by the instruments and by a library of stolen sounds that emigrated to their songs: grandmas, crafty cabbies, trains, party laughter, turnstiles, storytellers, and a fieldsworth of crickets. It's approachable music; it sounds like they knocked themselves out, which they did, and it also sounds like a...   [ read more ]

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The Family Afloat expresses a crucial personal transition and a collective one. Bound Stems quit their day jobs to tour relentlessly, then made the communal decision to return to the more stable life of work weeks and strong roots. But there's no settling down in these songs: family life is raw and confusing; as uncomfortable and unexpected and rewarding as it is crucial.

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