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March 07, 2005

quick takes :: iron & wine, robbers on high street

iron & wine :: woman king EP (buy)

More winners from Iron & Wine, who haven't recorded a bad tune yet in my book (except possibly for their cover of that Postal Service song used in Garden State. These tunes - all about mythic women - continue where they left off on Borrowed Tunes' #7 disc of 2004, Our Endless Numbered Days. But the key word is "continue" - there is a slight clockwise turn of the dial, with grooved polyrhythm in places, fuzz bass and crunch guitar poking through in others. The title track, a chugging lullaby, is Crosby, Stills, and Nash meeting Califone or their predecessors Red Red Meat. That swampgrass approach is the dominant theme of the 6 songs here, but, to my taste, the best tune here is the more folky, early-I&W-sounding Jezebel. It's one of the 3 or 4 best Sam Beam has done. Jezebel (mp3)

(Note: EPs are not eligible for the running top 20 - if they were, this would be in the top 10)

robbers on high street :: tree city (buy)

Robbers On High Street put out an EP in 2004 (or was it 2003?) that sounded exactly like Spoon - but, if you're like me, you'd rather a band imitate Spoon than pretty much anybody else. It whetted my appetite for a more mature, wholly-owned sound.

That sound is the sound of watered-down 2000s college rock - a competent collection of multi-influence tunes with a put-on New York post-punk swagger. The Spoon influence is still there, but only in places. I wish they went back to their days as a tribute band, but some might find a handful of keepers here. A possible example: Amanda Green (mp3)

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