We wish that we didn't have to tell you about the new Beachwood Sparks album. It'd be so much better if you just stumbled across it, put it in your backpack, and saved it for a solo drive through the desert, or maybe a late night working the graveyard shift, or a long night-flight across the country. Either way, it's gonna take time for the full effect of Once We Were Trees to sink in ? an album packed with so many hidden passages, spiraling stairways, and dark corners calls for a little extra attention. ...   [ read more ]

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More Songs From the Mellow Struggle reveals a band waking from the hazy murk of a lo-fi past, ready to share their own very personal epiphanies. Swearing At Motorists shares as much musically with Buffalo Springfield and Muswell Hillbilly-era Kinks as with later curators of bad vibes, Richard Hell and Alex Chilton. There's also an early '80s new wave canon that seems to have deeply affected Doughman in his song structuring, attitude, and vocal delivery --indeed you can hear remnants of Joe Jackson, the Car...   [ read more ]

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The band themselves were displeased with this record, feeling that the production did not capture their on-stage energy and excitement. Yet to most ears, this debut sounds pretty great, featuring some of their most melodic and accomplished songwriting and harmonies, delivered with a hard-rocking punch. "For What It's Worth" was the hit single, but there are several other equally stunning treasures. Stephen Stills' "Go and Say Goodbye" was a pioneering country-rock fusion; his {&"Sit Down I Thin...   [ read more ]

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