Recommended: Umbrella Tree

This is an indie band from Nashville. I saw their poster in a local coffeeshop and thought it was interesting, then found them on NoiseTrade, a site that has a bunch of artists following a hybrid Derek Webb / Radiohead (billionaires don’t get links) model where you can download music free for telling 3 friends or paying what you want.

Anyway, I downloaded their stuff to check it out after listening to a sample and I’m hooked. Their MySpace page describes their music as “Bohemian Bookworm Prog-pop.” I would describe them as a sub-pop love child of The Decemberists, The Tragically Hip, and either the melancholic side of Sonic Youth or Starflyer 59.

Which is a pretentious name-dropping way to say they totally kick ass. You can sample and download the songs with this widget too. And you should do it because, as I said, they totally kick ass.

(This widget is a different collection of songs than I downloaded but they still kick ass. Just download their music!)

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