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Article: Ear Worm.
- Article from:
- The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2007
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The High Llamas
"Can Cladders"
Chamber Pop: A-
Impossible not to think of pop eccentrics like Van Dyke Parks, Lindsey Buckingham and Wayne Coyne when listening to the eighth CD by London's Llamas. Like those other iconoclasts, Sean O'Hagan - the band's songwriting guru - goes far a field for inspiration. "Winter's Day" is about an art theft in East Anglia, "Dorothy Ashby" charts the life of an obscure jazz harpist and "The Old Spring Town" looks at a weary world traveler who is retiring to a home without clocks. Bursting with harps, marimbas, acoustic guitars and female backing vocals, "Can Cladders" is a gossamer-light confection that sounds ...
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