Band of Horses: Everything All The Time

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Wedding the elemental, earthworn rock of My Morning Jacket or Neil Young to the atmospheric pop of West Coast indie mainstays the Shins and Red House Painters, the debut album from recent Sub Pop signees Band of Horses will be immediately, invitingly familiar to anyone who reads this site regularly. But if their roots are recognizable, the music is anything but commonplace: Everything All the Time delicately balances contrasting elements, its lyrics and instrumentation both reaching rare levels of depth and complexity. Rueful without receding into self-absorption, and sweeping without tumbling into bombast, Band of Horses prove themselves capable of evoking a stunningly dynamic range of emotions-- yet, every element and track here contributes to the album's wistful, twilit undercurrent. Beautiful and boundless, Everything All the Time is among the year's most striking debuts to date.

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