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- Record Label: Alive Naturalsound Records
- Release Date: Nov 26, 2013
- Artist(s): Josh Schwartz, Brent Rademaker, Chris Gunst, Farmer Dave Scher
- Summary: The previously unreleased debut album from the original lineup of the psychedelic country rock band that included Chris Gunst, Brent Rademaker, Dave Scher, Josh Schwartz, Dave Scher, Tom Sanford, and Pete Kinne was recorded in 1997 in a converted one-car garage.
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- Record Label: Alive Naturalsound Records
- Genre(s): Country, Alt-Country, Americana, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Alternative Country-Rock
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Nov 26, 2013These “lost” recordings are generally better than anything the band has done since.
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Dec 3, 2013The album is so much more than a set of rough drafts of more considered compositions. These 1998 offerings succeed in their own right.
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Nov 26, 2013All the core elements of Beachwood Sparks are here, but there’s also more, and less, at the same time.
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Nov 26, 2013The heavy chords of the album-opening title track are a surprising jolt, yet maintain the same breezy Laurel Canyon harmonies for which the band later became known.
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MojoDec 18, 2013While Desert Skies' fusion of '60s country-rock with '90s underground dynamics doesn't move ass deeply as 2001's sublime Once We Were Trees, its peaks prove Beachwood Sparks' early days are worth investigating. [Jan 2014, p.103]
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Dec 13, 2013Desert Skies is a document of a band content with trying on various personae without pushing them into new and original areas.
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Nov 27, 2013They remain a surprisingly divisive band, with detractors accusing them of imitating rather than innovating. Desert Skies does absolutely nothing to answer that criticism, but it does provide a useful point against which to measure their later efforts.
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