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This record is wonderful! Yes I said ?wonderful,? not ?great? or ?really cool,? but w-o-n-d-e-r-ful, because listening to it is like looking at a spider web after it just rained, and the dew is still on it, or like watching your supposedly tame cat kill a bird and then bring it to you as a present. Maybe that sounds corny or maybe it doesn?t make any sense? but the point is that the songs on this record take me to a familiar and glorious feeling. I would recommend this record for anyone who likes the sages of K recs (Mt. Eerie, Little Wings, Karl Blau) because it shares a similar philosophical undertaking, or unraveling of the world we live in, and personal sincerity and naivety. But don?t misunderstand me ?Antlers and The Sun?? is totally unique in its production, and arrangement (he plays a lot cool folky type instruments like Banjo, Autoharp, Penny Whistle, etc.). But it is probably the quality of song-writing that puts this record, and Bird By Snow, in a category all alone, its obvious just from the weird band name, that Fletcher Tucker (he?s the ?band?) is more concerned with the way words free associate with each other, and the way phrases lean on each other and flow into the ether, than narrative story-telling. The tunes themselves run the gambit from the psyched out drone-a-thon ?I will age 1,000 years and not improve? to the breathtakingly fragile ?Great Glower and Gloam? to the campfire sing-along ?Please Favor Me World? to the breakaway mix-tape, masterwork ?Fat New Born Baby.? I say buy this record, because you will probably like it.
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