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Best Records of 2012 | 50-46

50. Horse Feathers – Cynics New Year – Justin Ringle and his angelic voice touches us again this year with Cynics New Year, yet again another quiet but enchanting record of subtle string folk and Ringle’s superbly mellow, rainy day voice coupled with poetic songwriting spanning the sonic space similar to an open field on a gray wet day. Cynic’s New Year shines on tracks, The Last Waltz, Where I’ll Be & Fit For the Country. Listen: Horse Feathers – Where I’ll Be| Buy: Cynic’s New Year 49. Hip Hatchet – Joy & Better Days – Hip Hatchet is the songwriting project…

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New Music | Kalispell – Westbound

Kalispell – Methodist Lift [T]his beautiful little album has been sitting inside my computer for far too long without me talking about it.  Kalispell is the musical project from Eau Claire, Wisconsin’s Shane Leonard. Leonard, studied english ed at Wisconsin – Eau Claire and formed a band, Lowtel, with a few guys you might know of, Sean Carey (Bon Iver) and Jeremy Boetcher (S.Carey) and John Dehaven.  There’s obviously something in the water over there in Wisconsin, because Kalispell’s album Westbound (out in May of 2012) is one delightfully gorgeous album.  Similar in the vein of Bon Iver & Field…

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