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Sounds like:
Azure Ray,
Marika Hackman,
Lucy Rose,
Stephen Fretwell
By
Sian Eleri
on
Feb 25, 2019
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Picture this -- you're 13, sitting in the back of your family’s Peugeot 406 estate gazing pensively out the window, tracing raindrop tails with your right hand as your left clings on to your Walkman, longing for the journey to be over. You put on a t...
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2

Sounds like:
Father John Misty,
Real Estate,
Cass McCombs
By
Andrew Aitchison
on
Feb 20, 2019
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This delicate and cinematic ballad from the American singer/songwriter Brandon Hoogenboom is just what I needed this morning. It's a really calming piece of music, and listening to this song really felt like a healthy way to start the day.
A promine...
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3

Sounds like:
Andy Shauf,
Father John Misty,
Elliot Smith,
Michael Rault
By
Andrew Aitchison
on
Feb 19, 2019
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Sometimes songs have a message in their lyrics, and sometimes those songs have messages which are really simple and sweet. This is one of those songs. I'm not sure that Foxwarren would appreciate being called "swee...
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4

Sounds like:
Fleet Foxes,
Beirut
By
Dylan Heneck
on
Feb 6, 2019
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Bibio managed to out-Bibio himself. That's quite a feat considering one of my most frequented similar artist tags on Indie Shuffle is Bibio.
"Curls" is giving off strong Braveheart vibes, and regardless of whether you also don't love Mel Gibson, pe...
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5

Sounds like:
Devendra Banhart,
Beirut,
Y La Bamba
By
Christiana Bartolini
on
Jan 24, 2019
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Helado Negro's single "Pais Nublado" is a gorgeously hypnotizing marriage of acoustic indie folk and airy synths.
The vocals carve the path as the deconstructed instrumentals follow suit. The harmonies ebb and flow as they drift atop, meanwhile the ...
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6

Sounds like:
Norah Jones,
Ingrid Michaelson,
Kina Grannis
By
Reina Shinohara
on
Jan 21, 2019
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Have you ever laid in the grass with your friends, while being serenaded with a sweet and simple acoustic tune, or is that just in the movies? Shockingly enough, this has actually happened to me, and listening to “With Only The Mountains” takes me ri...
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7

Sounds like:
Father John Misty,
Kurt Vile
By
Dylan Heneck
on
Jan 14, 2019
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The mother craned over a basket, and as a drop of water falls pure from the sky, yet undirtied by the earth, so too her child lay clean as the weight over her mother's shoulder. The pair paced through thicket and brush while the mob moved near. Beads...
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8

Sounds like:
Daggy Man,
The Hails,
Andy Shauf
By
Dylan Heneck
on
Dec 21, 2018
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Somebody just honked behind me that went perfectly in time with the song I'm listening to. Occasionally when I think about someone they'll call me out of the blue. A car that stopped across me at the traffic light yesterday had my bank pin in the cor...
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