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jus:
I've been listening to slightly less presumptuous music lately: featuring less posturing by the vocalist, a little more sensitive and hopefully real, neat musicianship etc.

So what I want from y'all: recommendations of course!

Of the sometimes emotional, stripped down to basics variety, and also hopefully not overbearingly whiny. I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to find bands that are less ego, more sincerity and class. Artists unafraid to bare their souls.

I can't seem to find enough realness out there... and I'm frustrated.

I suppose classifying artists as insufferable welps or sincere artists is a subjective practice. I for one, love Death Cab for Cutie. I haven't heard much of Iron & Wine but I've been told by friends to check them out, though I'm not sure which album to buy. Any other recommendations?

So I'm not posting empty handed, I recommend Travis's The Man Who and the first Shins album Oh, Inverted World to anyone who doesn't already own them.

Samgam Gamalan:
The only Bright Eyes album I've heard is Lifted..., but that seems very real and open to me. Especially 'Bowl of Oranges', it contains the essence hope, much purified.

yipjumpmusic:
Get any iron and wine.  If you like that music then just get them all though the ep Woman King is more...forceful, loud...eh something...more instruments?  Someone else will know better but I enjoy them all.

Damien Jurado is very...real I guess you can say.  His 2 best cds are Waters Ave. S and rehearsals for departure.  Though he just came out with a new cd so can't give opinion on that one yet.

Sufjan Stevens if you have not heard of them...greetings from michigan and seven swans the ones you are probably looking for the most.

Well there's a couple.

jus:
Awesome, thanks for the recs guys. I'll fire off the CD order tomorrow, after I get a few other albums on my list. I'll definitely sneak some Iron & Wine in there, Woman King seems like a good place to start. I know a little about Bright Eyes, I've heard mixed reviews mostly.

I hate not being able to download music through my crappy university network. Songs just don't sound right through that crappy Amazon.com streaming media player.

Anywho, thanks again: time to hit the sack.

yipjumpmusic:
hope you check them out before you order :P  never trust strangers, even well intentioned ones ;)

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