Word: lintonã
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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This change in position also allows their relationship with their own opening bands to blossom. Currently, they are touring with The Quails—whom they met through Linton??s connections in the San Francisco music scene—and Hella—by mandate of Suicide Squeeze Records. Over the course of the tour, the three bands have become very close...
...lush chamber-pop of Belle & Sebastian, the Set’s touring partners from last spring. That band’s Sixties-tinged aesthetic is favored over the crunchy noise-pop that filled the Aislers Set’s first two albums, and much of lead singer Amy Linton??s previous career with Henry’s Dress...
This time around, the band plucks hand-clapped rhythms and gentle xylophones straight from Motown’s golden age. Though Linton??s vocals mostly hit the mark, she is sometimes too ambitious. Her voice never quite passes as sultry, and is over-affected enough to hurt the slower numbers. The fast songs are the album’s best, showing off the band’s post-punk roots—especially on “Languor in the Balcony” and “The Train #2.” The latter serves up distorted...
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