The massive sound of And So I Watch You From Afar
by Don’t get confused by the unusually long name of this band. Once you start listening to their music, words won’t matter any more. I saw this band for the first time in Vienna as they opened a show for the super-group, Them Crooked Vultures, and I have to say, it should have been the other way round. This year they stopped by in Vienna for a single show, and again, I was stunned how far their skills had expanded. They create a sea of sound into which your soul will eventually float away.
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YOU'RE SAYING (1)
HAVE YOUR SAY
Murray Lightburn, frontman for Canadian indie group, The Dears, gave us the rundown for our sister site, My Secret Playlist, on the tunes that are currently on high rotation on his inner-ear iPod. He started with the Air song, Mike Mills [listen below]: ‘I’ve been working from my home studio and have a few tracks that I play in it because I am very familiar with how they sound. Mike Mills, aside from being a well-composed track, sounds really good. When the strings come in towards the end, I am wishing that I had written it’. Read the rest of The Dears’ Secret Playlist, along with Playlists by Girl Talk, Cocoon and Weezer, among many ohers.
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Israel Rdz said | 2 December, 2011
hi, If you like this ! Here in Mexico we have two bands sounds like this listen it I hope you like it
1st Los Amparito http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v58LKOMFc3g
2nd Austin TV (I love this awesome show and videos) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbgBZ1QV_w0