Blog: Direct Current

"An unassuming thing of minor beauty" says The Wire of Twice Born Men , the remarkably inventive sophomore album from acclaimed Brit "folk-tronic" trio Sweet Billy Martin . Steeped in quiet drama and bathed in long, dark shadows of mood and melancholy, the music of SBM has been compared to Radiohead, The Blue Nile, Elbow, Damian Rice and even Coldplay in that peculiar, distinctively British genre of serious-minded, intelligent and challenging art/pop. The band was recently selected as a finalist for the 2009 U.K. Mercury Prize in the U.K. -- and naturally we thought it was [...]

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