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Invitation Songs is a welcome, and welcoming, debut.
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Like a drifter telling stories, the music is precocious yet consistently repetitious.
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The Cave Singers' methods are clearer and less complicated than say, Joanna Newsom or Sufjan Stevens.
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MagnetThe members of The Cave Singers seem intent on scraping away their previous bands' noise and bluster to find a music that's no less nervy and riveting. [Fall 2007, p.92]
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Like unsettling lullabies, The Cave Singers brand of folk music is contemplative, but isn’t that of a summery strum.
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If these songs constitute the Cave Singers' most pronounced attempts at transcending standard folk tropes, it's the gentle, percussion-free lullaby 'Helen' that ultimately proves most successful.
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Invitation Songs is one of the most genuine pieces of new music to come out of the hipster-infested woods in all of 2007.
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Invitation Songs is as compelling and likeable as their combined past projects were hard and edgy, as if they've been doing Nick Drake covers all along. That's no small feat.
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Under The RadarInvitation Songs is a straightforward, but nonetheless intriguing, take on classic Americana with flourishes of electronica. [Fall 2007, p.82]
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MarjaMJan 3, 2008Really, one of the most underrated albums of '07. Others being Fionn Regan, Great Lake Swimmers, and Junior Boys. Is it Me?
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PatrickMOct 26, 2007