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Risking sentimentality
OtterErotic:
Also, Okay just put out two amazing albums on Absolutely Kosher. Back story and MP3's at http://www.absolutelykosher.com
Amsterdarn:
Bonnie "Prince" Billy is incredible, and very "real". I'd start with either I See A Darkness or Greatest Palace Music. Also, the Decemberists are wonderful, though they're more likely to be tongue-in-cheek than sentimental. When they are, though, they're damn good at it. Nick Drake is amazing, and Okkervil River is great, too.
And it probably goes without saying at this point, but if you don't have The Postal Service's "Give Up", you probably should.
OtterErotic:
Oh man, I See a Darkness. The thing that intrigues me so much about Will Oldham is that I feel like he isn't being "real" in a personal sense, but tapping into a broader sense of the "real" in terms of broad themes like love and death.
jus:
--- Quote from: Amsterdarn ---And it probably goes without saying at this point, but if you don't have The Postal Service's "Give Up", you probably should.
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You know, that might actually be the CD that spawned my current hunger for this type of music. I found them a week before traveling to the Philippines to visit old friends, was already a bit emotional, then I heard one song and fell in love, heard it again by chance in this girl I know's bedroom, fell even more in love with that CD.
Schmung:
David Gray - White Ladder. Muchly good.
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