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vetiver

10/31/2019

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Vetiver (from the album Up on High available on Mama Bird Recording Co)  (by Bryant Liggett)
Up on High may as well be a guided tour through the rich past of the Folk Rock genre. The latest from release from Vetiver, Up on High, watches frontman Andy Cabic trot through a neighborhood ripe with the acoustic yearnings of young Pink Floyd while their dreams play a soundtrack of 1970’s Country Rock from the neighbors of Laurel Canyon all while digging into the 1980’s across the US from LA’s The Paisley Underground to the indie vibe of Athens, Georgia’s R.E.M. “The Living End” and “To Who Knows Where” kick Up on High off on a beautiful hush with “Swaying” and “All We Could Want” picking up the pace. A big lyrical hook announces ‘hold tight, we’re already there’ on the subtle keyboard Funk of “Hold Tight”  while “Wanted Never Asked” is loaded with a 1980’s guitar jangle. “A Door Shuts Quick” sings a quietly melodic lullaby, a quiet song of lament, saying goodbye with Vetiver singing ‘forever’s just a day away’ while mentioning ‘regrets, last requests’.
The Up on High title track unfolds in a psychedelic Folk backdrop when six-strings strum while another guitar picks out a quiet melody and pedal steel offers ambience with its atmospheric sounds below Cabic’s dreamy vocal. “Lost (In Your Eyes)” closes Up on High with a picturesque love song that dreams of diners and cheap hotels with a loved one. Vetiver live comfortably in the Indie Ambient-Folk community, Up on High quiet like the Wilco ballads of the last dozen years with hints of the desert noir of Calexico, its lyrical and melodic laziness its strength. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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