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- Summary: The Seattle-based band featuring ex-Pretty Girls Make Graves' Derek Fudesco releases their first album.
- Record Label: Matador
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock, Folk
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Positive: 9 out of 13
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Mixed: 4 out of 13
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Negative: 0 out of 13
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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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Invitation Songs is a welcome, and welcoming, debut.
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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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The Cave Singers' methods are clearer and less complicated than say, Joanna Newsom or Sufjan Stevens.
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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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Like a drifter telling stories, the music is precocious yet consistently repetitious.
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Q MagazineInvitation Songs treads a well-worn path through dusty Americana, but with aplomb. [Mar 2008, p.100]
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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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
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