Tony Dekker, lead singer of Great Lake Swimmers, has a gift: a voice so earnest, breathtaking, haunting, and absolutely his own. Its beauty is never cloying, though--nope, when combined with thundering drums, and rolling guitars, and jaunty banjo (example: the new EP's title track "Hands In the Dirty Ground"), he might have the power to move mountains, melt glaciers, or tame wild animals.The Hands
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Great Lake Swimmers--Hands In The Dirty Ground EP (or why i love Tony Dekker)
Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter--Like, Love, Lust and The Open Halls of the Soul
Jesse Sykes is a kindred soul; in an interview with Magnet in 2005, she talks about her reaction/relationship with music and her band: "that sense of something happening inside the music..something that's part of the music, yet separate from it...if you could record the sound of my soul, that's what it would sound like." Anyone who understands the complexity and beauty of a mix tape, or the power
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Barzin--My Life In Rooms
Some days seem to last forever, normal interactions seemingly unfolding in a series of one-act plays all colored in varying shades of monochrome. Thoughts slowly and vividly float in the air, almost tangible; it's a limbo between being an active participant and an outsider in your own weary head. If there's a soundtrack to such a feeling, Canadian songwriter Barzin H.'s latest album, My Life In...
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