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Usually I hate music. I don’t like it. I hate writing it, I hate listening to it, I hate thinking about it. Wanting to have a career that revolves around it seems useless and I can’t help but think that musicians are the worst people in the world all the time. But sometimes you find some group that is just so pleasant, it reminds me that “Oh hey, I go to music school, and music is some pretty great stuff.”
The group from what I can tell is a bunch of folks from Oberlin playing some enjoyable ditties using strings, banjos, oboes, and a woman singer who sounds like a wonderful person and can sing quite well. Maybe it’s just because I’m in my Songs: Ohia “anything with acoustic guitars or banjo or mandolin sounds AWESOME” mood or maybe it’s because it’s such a short release (4 songs, 13 minutes), but it sounds great. It doesn’t appear to be some group that’s just chilling and saying “Oh yeah, you know what would be GREAT (wink wink, not really) – A BANJO!”. This group sounds genuine and the musicians clearly have the chops to be pulling this off. I was listening to this while enjoying the nice weather and machine-made breeze of my fan yesterday and yeah, it made me smile.
Albie says that he saw them perform without the strings, but TWO OBOES!! Hear that?! TWO OBOES, LAUREN! AT THE SAME TIME!!!
OVERALL RATING – Catch of the day!
KEY TRACKS – “Blue Egg Blues”, “Houseboat”.
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