This Bay Area outfit cross-references bluegrass guitar, mandolin, vast percussion, and orchestral arrangements into a mildly freaky yet no less tangy folk salad. The exciting twist: All this sound comes from just two people. On their sophomore album, Visiter, it all comes together with cunning cohesion, their studio tinkering giving birth to tracks like "Winter," where the duo reels in strumming mandolin, sustained rim-and-tom clatter, and discordant horns with a simple, swaying vocal harmony. Throughout the record, familiar indie melodies ultimately seal together abstract approaches that might otherwise sound like traveled upon l'freak pour l'freak efforts.
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