Snow Caps' second album is full of great melodies and appealing low-key songwriting, using little more than acoustic guitars and body percussion. Andrew Keller plays guitar in the band Hermit Thrushes, but in his solo project, Snow Caps, he records every single note and word himself. Clocking in at a brief 27 minutes, Moonbreak nonetheless feels like a full-bodied album. Keller has a knack for strong melodies, and he gets right to the point and gets out before any one song wears out its welcome. This makes the album seem full of ideas despite most of its...
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Edible Onion always provides the most unique cover art, be it on CD or vinyl. One of their latest is from a band called Snow Caps , the release: Moonbreak . Snow Caps creates light, playful bedroom folk-pop. The band is Andrew Keller of Hermit Thrushes, and Moonbreak is the result of more than two years of recording by Keller, spanning several rooms in a Philadelphia home. The album flickers between full folk-pop songs and instrumental ones. It is intricate, beautiful, a little odd [...]
Intros. So over-rated. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues ( mp3 ) The title track from the FF's just-announced sophomore album (out 2 May ), this does what all the best Foxes songs do: it gets me screaming along intently - eyes closed, forehead creased, fist clenched, foot tapping - to lyrics about heaven knows what. On this evidence, the Seattlers' sound is just as sprawling, single-minded and gorgeous as before. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues by subpop [...]
die city slang menschen machen das schon richtig: am 17. januar stellen sie ihre neue band im michelberger hotel in berlin vor, "civilian" haben sie dabei natürlich im gepäck und ein paar stücke werden jenn wasner und andy stack sicher auch zum besten geben, das album kommt am 04. märz, wir setzen hier einen alten track und einen neuen ein, wer wohin gehört, Ihr kriegt es raus, gut sind eh beide: wye oak - i hope you die wye oak - [...]
Snow Caps is the project of Philadelphia's Andrew Keller. "Moonbreak" is the second album from the project and will be released on February 15 on Edible Onion. Keller's project features soft acoustic tracks catiously composed and all recorded in his bedroom. "Moonbreak"...
This post is long overdue as I've had this neat little compilation stuck in my inbox for a couple of months now. For this week's Fresh from the Post, instead of an artist feature, we feature a couple of songs from A Cure for the Brokenhearted - a twelve-song compilation chocfull of unique indie gems care of our friends at the Edible Onion . If you like DIY, this compilation is as endearingly DIY as it gets. Aside from the 12 heartfelt songs, the album also comes packaged in an artsy, hand-made accordion book, that [...]
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