It's a sonically lush whisper, sharing secrets with anyone curious enough to listen.
Produced by Spoon's Britt Daniel, It's Frightening is more musically assured and less sonically dense than White Rabbits' debut, Fort Nightly.
But where Oberst's persona is wide-eyed and vulnerable, O'Brien's is brooding and elusive, making Becoming a Jackal a beautiful but emotionally and sonically complicated album.
While Blind Pilot might not be lo-fi enough to be considered acid-folk, sonically you can't help but notice nods to Jeff Mangum and company.
The album's opener, "Spanish Village By The Sea, " is the record's sole instrumental track, and the melodic strings that drive it set it apart sonically.
Goodman, who professes an "absolute, mad love" for The Hold Steady, says Stay Positive is sonically more experimental than their previous album, Boys and Girls in America.
Both iLoud models provide highly accurate reproduction of a wide range of musical styles from rock, hip-hop and electronic dance music, to more nuanced and sonically demanding genres like classical and acoustic.
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With an ensemble that's sonically diverse (three lead vocalists, a horn duo and congas, in addition to a full rhythm section) and also spanning a broad range of ages and ethnicities, Kings Go Forth has created a groove all its own.
Sonically, this treatment of America comes across via a grouping of pedal steel guitars (instead of the usual string section), banging titanium and steel sculptures, and organizing "a who's who of drummers" in a 12-member drum circle, including Jason Bonham, Sheila E. and Pharrell Williams.
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