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Staff pick of the week...
This week...Jim picks it!
 Artist: Leopold
Title: Dreaming Is For Anyone
Price: $13.50 CD 
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Tracks
on this CD: |
| A
Rare Occasion |
| October |
| Promising
Day |
| See
You Around |
| Home
From School |
| She
Said |
| Still
Time |
| Walking
Away |
| Being
Nice |
| Needless
To Say |
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If
quiet is really the new loud and if a dose of Arctic Circle
understatement is just what the doctor ordered, then Goteborg
quartet Leopold’s effortlessly handsome piano-and-guitar-driven
soft-pop and plush orchestrations might be the perfect prescription.
Like their fellow Goteborg barmates Ronderlin, Leopold have
created a grand music that is poignant and melancholy without
being morose or sappy. Languid popsongs with a serious play
of light and shadow flickering within them, galvanized by
Måns Wiklund’s wish-you-were-here vocals atop
velvety plaintive piano motifs and guitarist Anders Jacobsson’s
brilliant chiming plucks and strums. I'm pretty sure (checking
my notes) that this is one of the most beautiful albums of
the century. For fans of The Tindersticks, Rufus Wainwright,
Belle & Sebastian, John Lennon, Sondre Lerche, Bear Quartet,
Mojave 3, Coldplay…
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