SXSW 2005 Showcasing Artists
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Pleasant Grove
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Pleasant Grove were drawn together by a vision to write and play music that captured raw melancholy melodies laid out over slow spacious rhythmic harmonies. Their music oozes the down-and-out ache of Texas country yet still flows with the sonic outbursts of an electric Will Oldham, the Flaming Lips or an out of control Alex Chilton
Their latest album, The Art of Leaving, delves into different, uncharted ground in their songwriting and yet maintains a sentiment and cohesiveness of longing and desperation that has been prevalent since the beginning. It's a mesmerizing set of songs - gut-wrenching, sophisticated, built up from the barest arrangement to an often explosive climax- while echoing dense layers of sound and devices. |
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