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Last night I was lounging with some good friends, listening to new music, and a song came on that stunned me with its beauty. My friend told me it was a band called The Receiver. For the next forty minutes I was treated to an aural explosion of layered vocals and beats – truly a thing of beauty – and I had to learn more.

The Receiver is made up of Columbus, Ohio brothers Casey and Jesse Cook and their music stemmed from a final year composition project that Casey was working on at Ohio State University in 2004. They later expanded the work to become an album, called Decades, in late 2006.

The vocals reminded me instantly of Elliott Smith, but the music accompanying them was something different…more ambient and definitely more complex than Elliott’s barebones style.

I urge you as strongly as my fingers can type to check out Goliath, With You In Quiet Space and Corner Pt. 1 on the band’s MySpace page. It’s the kind of luscious, layered music that’s great for lounging and pondering life on a patio. Just perfect downtempo music for a lazy afternoon. I just grabbed the album through their online store for $12; can’t wait to receive it in the mail!

Links:
MySpace: The Receiver
Official Site: The Receiver

Posted on Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 at 4:54 pm by Kat and is filed under MuchRadar.

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