New Music Monday: Picture Atlantic and Head of Femur
Jul 21, 2008, 3:19am
A Free Man
A Free Man
There's a fine line between being influenced by an artist and being derivative of an artitst and Picture Atlantic is staggering along that tightrope. The Oakland, California based quintet seems to be managing pretty well so far. They recently got the chance to open for Brit-pop brontosaurus Coldplay in California, but while Picture Atlantic's influences clearly lie in the British Isles, they avoid the trap of sounding like a Coldplay (or Keane, or Travis) cover act. Their self-recorded and produced debut Kleos ( buy ) broke through the drone of backlogged music this weekend, initially because of it's Anglophile tendencies. But the [...]
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