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Pleasant if undemanding listening.
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[To Find Me Gone] finds Cabic nudging Vetiver toward the lost canyons of airy West Coast soft-rock and laid-back, country-tinged introspection, all harvested with a dreamy, narcotic warmth and just enough melodic grit to avoid a complete departure off into the twilight.
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UncutFeatures more of the uncomplicated Californian country-rock fare that was hinted at by the cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Save Me A Place" on last year's Between EP. [Jul 2006, p.116]
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Vetiver makes first rate folk pop music that can be as fine as a walk on a spring day with brightly colored wildflowers mixed in the meadow, sweet smells in the placid breezes, and newly hatched insects flying by.
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MojoTo Find Me Gone won't win any awards for wheel reinvention, but it's no sterile exercise in genre classicism. [Jul 2006, p.101]
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Q MagazineThis homebrewed, spacious music can still sound pretty blissful, but the quality songs have a directness and variety that will please David Gray fans as much as the acid folk devotees. [Jul 2006, p.119]
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New Musical Express (NME)Cabic's alt.blues vocals sometimes sound disinterested, but they merely act as a device for the music to take over the listener. [1 Jul 2006, p.36]
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SpinThese are the kind of go-with-the-flow countrified tunes that the Grateful Dead used to spin between epic jams, but with a more delicate acoustic touch. [Jul 2006, p.90]
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Paste MagazineWhat a difference a year (and a beard) makes. [Sep 2006, p.75]
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It's a compelling, forward-thinking album that's as likely to please fans of melodic indie-pop and roots-rock as it is fans of the current crop of folk troubadours.
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This is a decidedly unhurried album, and it takes a while to find the small pleasures within each song. But once you do, it’s really fantastic.
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Alternative PressAgeless and deeply affecting. [Jul 2006, p.210]
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A perfect album.
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The WireThere's more here than nostalgia, with a range of styles and influences incorporated into Cabic's deceptively direct arrangements, and an afterglow that's testament to his talents. [#269, p.53]
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It's never anything less than gorgeous.
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FilterIt's Cabic's soft-sung delivery and chiming acoustic harmonies that give Vetiver their charm. [#21, p.96]
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To Find Me Gone shows a band as adept at bucking trends as they are at invoking tradition.
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Really, though, Cabic needs more “Red Lantern Girls,” a gauzy folk workout that hides and seeks until a brutish electric guitar prods the rhythm and heads for higher ground. It is everything the rest of the album is not: aggressive, terse, and surprising.
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Sublime.
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Eschewing the Incredible String Band nostalgia of Espers et al for a more complex hybrid somewhere between the Kinks at their most relaxed and the Band at their most committed, Vetiver have made a record that's as summery as a field full of butterflies.
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Though it still errs toward a languid late-60s template, Cabic’s songwriting is now crisp and effortlessly melodic.
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JonAug 17, 2006
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MattD.Jun 20, 2006Many songs on here are good, forward thinking indie-folk - while some other songs are underdeveloped.