Need more sources - Shed

I'm devouring lazy vacation days. When I get up - at some ungodly hour - I don't know how the day will be spent. Need more sources, a Brittish band affiliated with (gorgeous) The Boats, provides the perfect soundtrack for a day like this. I'm listening to Shed, released in 2007. The music of it is warm and good-natured, packed with swirling strings and sublime guitar patterns. There's repetitive piano figures. On some tracks, there's drums; on "Storm", a steadfast beat makes up the backbone of the song and on "snow" an electronic beat breaths some space into the languid pace of the song. While listening to the record, I read an article about Virginia Woolf's To the lighthouse. While reading it, my impressions of the novel, its patches of subdued force, became a part of the music. The dinner gatherings. The wordless interaction. The Isle of Skye, changes of weather. Shed has nothing of the iciness or the dramatic minimalism one can hear on many contemporary electro-accoustic releases. The moods of the songs shift, but there's a sense of glimmering happiness streaming through it all. The songs of the album bear weather-related titles, which makes perfect sense. "Spring", for example, is driven by a melody that floats around, the pace above mid-tempo, tambourines. The attention shifts from strings to drums to piano, everything being performed with warmth and ease. There's some similarities between this and "neo-classical" artists such as Goldmund, Helios and Sylvain Chauveau, (and maybe Colleen) but the full-fledged sound, and the specificity of the mood of Shed makes it unique.

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