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Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and bassist Mat Brooke shaped Band Of Horses in 2004 after the dissolution of their almost ten-yr run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissa’s Wierd. Carissa’s Wierd trafficked in sadly lovely orchestral pop, whose songs advised unflinching tales of heartbreak and loss, leavened with defeatist humor. Band Of Horses rises from these ashes. Buoyed by Bridwell’s heat, reverb-heavy vocals (which channel a wierd brew of Wayne Coyne, Neil Young, and Doug Martsch), the group’s woodsy, dreamy songs ooze with amorphous rigidity, longing, and hope. Both raggedly epic and delicately pensive, that is an album painted gorgeously in fragile highs and lows.
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