Blog: HearYa: An Indie Music Blog

Bombadil – Tarpits and Canyonlands [Album Review]

Jul 1, 2009, 11:34am HearYa: An Indie Music Blog
Bombadil- Three Saddest Words
Bombadil is a band and a word that I was unfamiliar with. I did a quick check on Wikipedia and apparently there's a fellow named Tom Bombadil that is described in J.R.R Tolkien's 1934 poem, "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," as a "merry fellow" living in a dingle close to the Withywindle river, where he wanders, exploring nature at his leisure. Oddly enough, that spirit of back-country exploration is a fair description of the band and their recent release, Tarpits and Canyonlands . Bombadil was formed by Duke University alumni in North Carolina by way of Bolivia, [...]
Link Text:Bombadil - Honeymoon
File Name:03-Honeymoon.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Link Text:Bombadil - Reasons
File Name:04-Reasons.mp3
Bitrate:128 kbps
Tags: , ,
Posts: 1403   Tracks: 2118   Last Crawl: 9 mins ago

Hot Artists

  • Yeasayer
    Those dudes up there attended Yale.  They’re ambitious and reliable.  If I were forced to hop in a boat with 9 other dudes for my [...]More about Yeasayer
  • Hot Chip
    The title track from Hot Chip’s new album One Life Stand is everything I hoped it would be. Take a listen: Hot Chip [...]More about Hot Chip
  • Massive Attack
    I dag dök nya albumet från Massive Attack, Heligoland, upp på Spotify. Min recension: Helt jävla grymt! Splitting The Atom fick vi ju [...]More about Massive Attack
  • Vampire Weekend
    Vampire Weekend has recently been getting a lot of love on Dipped in Dollars, and this remix of Cousins by Mexican producer Toy [...]More about Vampire Weekend
  • Phoenix
    We get it. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is probably the most loved french pop album of 2009 and there is even an entire remix album of it, but [...]More about Phoenix
  • Beach House
    On its previous albums, 2008’s Devotion and its 2006 self-titled debut, I dismissed Beach House as a listless Yo La Tengo, another Brooklyn-embraced duo that was all emperor, no [...]More about Beach House
  • St. Vincent
    2009 the Year in Music Welcome! You have just found one of the most exhaustive and well-considered lists of quality, [...]More about St. Vincent
  • Spoon
    Photograph by Autumn De Wilde In the pirate blogosphere culture of our recently ushered in decade, it can be hard to keep an album under wraps. Just [...]More about Spoon
  • Kid Cudi
    i know what youre thinking. “really? another day n night remix? really?” well, this one is way better than any other one youve ever heard, [...]More about Kid Cudi
  • Gorillaz
    Awesome cover art, eh? Fresh new track from the Gorillaz's third LP, Plastic Beach which will be released by Parlophone on 8 March, 2010. [...]More about Gorillaz
MoreAdd itRSS