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A Grave With No Name - Crows

Crows by A Grave With No Name

4...according to our on Fri 02 Sep, 2011.

I was expecting something dark and gothy with a name like that. I was right on the first count but it's dark in a pleasant way. Their sound is a very simple thing, distant, hazy piano and androgynous vocals and that's about it. It sits somewhere between Plush's gentle piano excursions and something Catpower might have thrown up on albums like 'Moonpix'. It's a very pleasant three track single if slightly samey, I'd go mad with a whole album of it but I understand this is an excursion and a welcome one at that. A look through past releases reveals that I've reviewed them before, describing them as something between Mercury Rev and Daniel Johnston which shows both their versatility and my increasingly shocking memory. Only 220 copies so be quick.

London's A Grave With No Name mine their own distinctive vein of haunted freaked folk and art rock, tracing delicate fissures in the emotional radiography of loss and longing to spellbinding effect. The second vinyl only release since 2010's acclaimed 'Mountain Debris' debut, these three piano led tracks bring the vulnerability and honesty of frontman Alexander Shields' songwriting to the foreground of his desolate and beautiful home recordings. 220 for sale.

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