The Close Readers Wellington, New Zealand
Formed in 2010, this band records the songs of New Zealand fiction writer Damien Wilkins.
The Close Readers recommends:
feeling, intelligence, obsessions, tunes
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supported by 4 fans who also own “Troubled Water”
The name of this album perfectly encapsulates everything I love about Elizabeth's musical output from the Darlings to Allo Darlin' to these precious songs: an unyielding optimism that is never naive, and by being so, becomes wildly contagious. Some music tells you that "everything will be ok", but her music actually makes you believe it, even when the lyrics hint at doubt.
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The Overflow
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supported by 4 fans who also own “Troubled Water”
My route here was a lifelong obsession with "The Free Life": music that has haunted me for more than 40 years. The interpretation is stunning and captures that strange mix of loss and hope. It radiates into the far corners: cathartic piano chords in Bright Shining Star, summer poppies from that drought of '76. The golden storm that pulled a village into the North Sea and we all had to grow up. You think you can't get some things back but in art you can.
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I Wish You Could See Yourself Right Now
by Gentle Organisms
The aptly named Gentle Organisms specialize in quietly radiant songs centered on tender melodies.
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Disturbing Dreams
by The Kartetch
Knotty alt-rock with corkscrewing guitars and steely vocals on an album that packs a punch.
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Summer Moon
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Yearning and anthemic post-rock from Glasgow, where marvelously tense verses explode into radiant choruses.
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