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Source:Vanity Project Issue 18
Subject: Flapper & Firkin: Treeology Tour

shady bard begin unassumingly, an icy sea wind drifting from the speakers, keyboard seen increasingly through the mist. The vocals come in and gradually the other instruments (and there are a plenty) home into view, linking hands and swaying amidst the harmony. They have a Gorky's/Mull Historical pastoral piano-folk charm, and give off a soft, summer evening feel, comfort blankets and star-filled skies with a dot of cloud drifting in and out of view with deliberate slow-mo calm. That said, they verge into apocalyptic-edge symphony at points, encoring with a torch-folk treatment of Editors' Munich that builds to piano-battery in their post-rock wind-down.

Skif/Jenny Gilroy

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