Wednesday, April 20, 2011

song of the day: april 20/2011

The Strugglers - Morningside Heights
Album: The Latest Rights [2008]

the country-tinged, midtempo songcraft of the strugglers is primarily composed by frontman brice randall bickford, who founded the group in 2001. with help from a rotating cast of musicians, bickford began crafting an atmospheric sound that was equally indebted to red house painters and neil young, with tremulous vocals to match. the debut album "done by the strugglers" arrived in 2001, and bickford slowly fleshed out his band's melancholic material on such subsequent efforts as 2003's "new room", and 2005's "you win". although their music depicted the pastoral landscape of bickford's native north carolina, the european label "acuarela discos" remained a strong champion of the band and issued a number of their albums, including "the latest rights" in 2008. the chorus-like strings accompanying the sulky acoustic guitar pretty much make the song.

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