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Artist:	OUR BROTHER THE NATIVE
Title:	Sacred Psalms
Label:	FAT CAT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	FAT 9019CD

"Our Brother The Native's third album-length effort for Fat Cat is also their most accomplished. Drawing on both the youthful, campfire sing-along quality of their 2006 debut Tooth And Claw as well as the epic, icy expansiveness of last year's Make Amends, For We Are Merely Vessels, Sacred Psalms finds the young trio of now-transplanted Detroit natives exponentially increasing the instrumental range and the sheer depth and quality of their recordings."

Artist:	OUR BROTHER THE NATIVE
Title:	Make Amends, For We Are Merely Vessels
Label:	FAT CAT (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.50
Catalog #:	FAT SP015CD

2008 release. "The eight songs here clock in at between six and fourteen minutes each and take their cues more from expansive post-rock/noise rather than any freaked folk scene. Self-recorded in Josh's dimly-lit Michigan basement between May -- December 2006, they were aided by Kayleen Nilsson on viola, a schoolfriend who has been in the band as an additional member for shows and some recording for the past year. Where the previous album was all jagged / ruptured songcraft, Make Amends is a much more fluid, immersive affair, a dense weave of layered (and partially buried) sounds worth a deliberate and slow building grasp of dynamics. Devoid of regular verse / chorus structuring, its songs sprawl out and unfurl with their own particular logic, mixing rich drones and flickering detail with brief but swollen, almost anthemic bursts of emotion, and the simmering threat of explosion. At different points it recalls the likes of Sigur Rós, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Stars Of The Lid, Popol Vuh, or Black Dice circa Beaches and Canyons."

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