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Fecha
Nov 4, 2006

Did I... did I miss anything important?
Are there any artists similar to Andrew Bird? There's Sufjan Stevens, I guess, and M. Ward (who is a bit too low-key for me), but so far I haven't really found any of the acoustic-songwriter-types who sing and write anything like Bird's excellent style. Maybe it's the violin that gives it that extra push.

edit: for music like Explosions in the Sky, the post-rock thread would be a good place to start. That's where I found ...Of Sinking Ships, anyways.

Fecha fucked around with this message at 23:47 on Feb 22, 2009

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Fecha
Nov 4, 2006

Did I... did I miss anything important?

Cart posted:

What's the best record to start with for Django Reinhardt?
Django owns but most albums of him are large compilations. As such, it's kind of hard to go wrong, but also a lot to wade through. "Nuages" is a great album from 1997 with 4 disks, but it doesn't have some of his other best-known classics like Minor Swing or Djangology. It sounds cheesy but "The Definitive Django Reinhardt Collection" has all of his best known stuff right in the first tracks.
I'd also recommend reading some background info on him if you don't know about his life. He was a really interesting character.

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