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DOWNLOAD: A Grave With No Name - Open Water

Posted Nov 6, 2008 6:23 PM by Kev Kharas

Tags: indie, folk, pop, grunge

The merits of nostalgic pop music have long been bones for critical contention, but the time seems to have come for the nineties to adopt the wistful glow that attracts so many weary moths. London's A Grave With No Name peer back into the mists of all that stuff they barely remember and find dreamy grunge-pop songs that feel more like two-minute salvia hallucinations, 27-year-old frontman Alex Shields floating his voice up to contend with the splattered chaos of memory and his own backing track. Recently they’ve taken their broken bedroom 8-track sounds out into London’s live dens, bassist Tom King and guitarist Anupa Madawela joining for shows with Atlas Sound and El Guincho, while "Open Water" may appear on a future split with Bedford, Indiana’s Natural Numbers, the noise project of 13-year-old Trevor Fitzhugh. I guess in a decade’s time he’ll be looking back at Obama with the same eyes I used to see The Spice Girls. Scary.

Sounds like: Daniel Johnston, Animal Collective, Mercury Rev

Download: A Grave With No Name - Open Water

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