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Bob Boilen, the creator and host of NPR’s All Songs Considered, selected the Dry Spells’ “Too Soon For Flowers” yesterday as his pick for “Album of the Year”. Congratulations to the Dry Spells!
Listen to a stream of the show “Discussion: The Year In Music, 2009” HERE
Purchase the LP + Download at the Endless Nest store HERE
…and check out what other people have been saying recently:
“Lush, eerie, dreamy and haunting, gorgeous vocal harmonies, minimal percussion, equal parts seventies British folk and seventies Laurel Canyon pop, woven into a witchy gothic brew that is totally enchanting. Strings soar, unfurling melancholy melodies, and guitars jangle, but it’s the female vocals that seal the deal, a la Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee of Pentangle, Bobbie Watson from Comus, Stevie Nicks, you get the idea, bewitching and ethereal, raw and powerful and emotional, and the harmonies, so captivating and otherworldly, wow. The Dry Spells manage to sound so timeless, this record definitely sounds contemporary, but if the lush production was dialed back just a little, this could easily have been some lost seventies psych folk reissue. Absolutely stunning. ”
– Aquarius Records
“They balance folk and the kind smoldering 70’s rock balladry that moved Stevie Nicks’ shawl to action, bent strings in Pentangle and Fairport and has more recently been embraced by fellow Frisco-dwellers The Sandwitches. […] The band manages to wring soaring emotion and sadness out with a triumphant and wide-flung delivery rather than adopt the tendency of latter day folk-rock to wrestle with and finally succumb to overwhelming melancholy. A definite rare surprise in a bewilderingly narrowing field of entrancing folk.”
– Raven Sings The Blues
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