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Karl Briedrick and Marie-Claire Balabanian of Speck Mountain have been categorized as space-rock, dream-pop, and shoegaze, but these co-leaders like to call their music "ambient soul". Uncut listed their debut 'Summer Above' on "The 20 Best Americana Albums of 2008" and Stereogum said: "their dream pop revels in reverb, and slowly marches to a tambourine-marked pulse and Marie-Claire Balabanian's crystalline vocal beam." Recently signed to Carrot Top Records, Speck Mountain 'Some Sweet Relief', their second full length album, will truly relieve the mind with its beautiful simplicity. The songs have been filled out with piano, organ, sax, and vintage effects, the mixes booby-trapped all over with headphone-happy detail. Influenced by gospel, 60's soul, and ambient film soundtracks, by combining the strength of Balabanian's lungs with the intuitive, spiky rhythms of Briedrick's guitar, Speck Mountain often suggest a divine marriage between melody and drone.
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