mp3: East Berlin at Night mp3: Sans Revival Dear Early Day Miners, My house is so cold. My feet are literally freezing at this very moment. I think I have poor circulation, and rightfully so. I mean the fact remains that there is a good 5 feet between my heart and my feet. Can you really expect blood to travel that well all the way to the other end of my body? I feel like I have tried everything to [...]
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O ver the course of the past decade, the Early Day Miners have been releasing epic, Midwest anthems that suggest a sprawling landscape of sound. The group’s latest release, Offshore , continues with this tradition of slow building songs the seemingly climax somewhere in the middle before gradually coming to a conclusion. This is actually pretty good stuff that’s half psychedelica and half rock. I hear some My Bloody Valentine, sure, but I’m more inclined to suggest Catherine Wheel when they’re mimicking Talk Talk. The moodiness [...]
MMS was the first time I saw Early Day Miners live. They play around the area quite often, seeing as how they are based just an hour south of Indianapolis in Bloomington where their label, Secretly Canadian , makes it home. They are a 7-piece band, led by Dan Burton, that was squeezed onto and in front of a stage really only built to handle three or four. They just released their new album, Offshore at the [...]
Even though, Frank from Chromewaves beat me to it, I feel compelled to post about the new album Offshore from Bloomington, IN's Early Day Miners because it is fast becoming one of my favorites of 2006. While the song "Offshore" was initially released on the group's sophomore album Let Us Garlands Bring , it serves as the foundation for this new album, much like a director's cut of that particular song. Offshore is gorgeously textured and virtually seamless from start to finish. It sucked me into [...]
Last year I had another blog by the name of Grey Will Fade, which I at the last minute quit. The reason I mention this is because of a post I did in early December 2005. The post was my picks for the best of that year. If I remember correctly, Bloomington Indiana's Early Day Miners "All Harm Ends Here" was #2 out of 50 picks. "All Harm..." was a sweeping, majestic album subtle at times, intense at other times. It held elements of post shoegaze and even slowcore, an album full of rich instrumentation and textures. I [...]
The Grace Cathedral Park song title describes my mood for the evening, along with these songs, beautiful...Grace Cathedral Park - Play Delicate, Desire Quiet [Mp3, 4.32MB,128kbps]Oceanographer - Vigils Matins [Mp3,5.28MB,160kbps] Early Day Miners - Autumn Wake [Mp3,4.88MB,128kbps] Eluvium - An Accidental Memory in the Case of Death [Mp3, 6.03MB, 192kbps]
I can keep this secret no longer. I've been enthralled with the cd Offshore by Early Day Miners for the past couple weeks now. Not only have I been enthralled, I've also been captivated. I've been enthralled (and captivated) by the long, lush, and expansive melodies, by the way one melody flows into the next, and by the way one song seemlessly passes to the next. One night, I had Offshore on repeat and I couldn't tell when the cd would start and when it would end. It was as if it was designed to be played on repeat. [...]
Early Day Miners - "Sans Revival" Peter Gabriel's So has not, as far as I know, had a considerable influence on the indie-rock community. Yet, imagine "Sans Revival" stripped of its arrangement and production aesthetic - what you're left with sounds very much like a So-era Gabriel song. The vocal is unabashedly manipulative, pulling you in despite yourself, like the rousing romantic finale of a well-crafted Hollywood movie (I'm thinking specifically of Say Anything and the cheese-festival that is "In Your Eyes"). So has a few likable aspects, but these do not include the arrangements or production aesthetic. The Early [...]
A good friend of mine told me yesterday that I should post a negative review or two on the site, to show that I’m not a record label lackey. He has a good point, because I don’t want to give the impression of lackeydom. So, I want to take a few minutes to explain why we don’t post negative reviews (or at least, not very many). Leah and I [...]
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