(Photo: Todd Roeth)
Blitzen Trapper don’t write a lot of piano ballads. There was "Not Your Lover" on 2008’s Furr, which sounded like Neil Young, but aside from that they tend to wile out in their own oddball corner of the Americanaverse. "Heaven And Earth," though, is a piano ballad. A grand one. There are strings, the piano sound is heavy and warm, and...
Furr is Blitzen Trapper’s first release for Sub Pop, a label that has begun to reshape its sound into something pretty and pastoral, especially when you consider this is the label that released Nirvana’s Bleach and Mudhoney’s self-titled debut a little less than 20 years ago.
In its roster now are bands like Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Iron & Wine, Grand Archives and...
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