toe (lowercase on purpose) is a beautiful reason why brick and mortar stores will always be valuable in the music community. There’s a good chance I might never have heard them if I wasn’t visiting Needle + Groove, my local shop. Amanda, the manager at the time has one of the most eclectic musical tastes I’ve ever encountered, and it was my luck she was spinning the band’s songs, ideas we forgot compilation and I was instantly hooked by their use of odd rhythms and beautiful melodies. I devoured everything, but it was years before Now I See The Light, the band’s fourth full-length and first in almost a decade was released. Far from losing a step, the record shows the band honing the songs to within an inch of their life, and the results are gorgeous and fragile, delicate as the mist in early morning.

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