MOG

It's very rare when an artist comes along and grabs my attention so intensely that I fall deeply and completely in love with them. In fact, the last artist to have that effect on me was Death Cab For Cutie and that head-over-heels infatuation began in 2002. So, you could say, they are few and far between.

My new adoration is with Band of Horses. A good friend of mine told me to download "No One's Gonna Love You" from Cease to Begin. So, I did and it was a great track. I immediately loved it. But I was not "in love" with BOH upon this first listen. About a month or so later, one of my very good friends introduced me to Pandora.com. It's this fabulous site where you get to create your own music station based on artist seeds that you enter. By entering only Death Cab, I found many new-to-me bands, one of them being Band of Horses.

Pandora introduced me to BOH's frist album Everything All the Time. I immediately fell in love with every track I heard from the album and proceeded to hastily purchase it. When it arrived on my doorstep via Amazon I was not disappointed in the slightest. It's certainly one of the most amazing albums I've heard in years. Ben Birdwell's vocals are hauntingly beautiful. The rhythmic guitars and melodic build-ups send chills down my spine throughout the entire album. I can't stop listening to it. I recently also purchased their newer album Cease to Begin. It's great as well, but I don't believe Everything All the Time could possibly be topped. Do yourself a favor and check them out. You will also not be disappointed.