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Article: Voices and Organs
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Article date:
- September 17, 2008
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Childhood's End?
IN THE SONGS of Voices and Organs, it's no mistake that there's something familiar amid the weirdness - but it's not because the band is particularly derivative. The group, largely the project of Swede Per Lindmark, is deeply rooted, theoretically, in childhood and memory, and the creepy-sound-collagemeets-whimsy it assembles reflects that.
Voices and Organs has existed since 2004, its only album to date being a full-length CD, Orphanage, released in 2006 by Western Vinyl. Orphanage is a concept album of sorts, centering on the childhoods of two characters n an orphanage. The songs are reminiscent most noticeably of the cloudy collage work of Mum or, to an extent, the quiet ...