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The Daredevil Christopher Wright, from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, is made up of brothers Jon and Jason Sunde, along with their friend Jesse Edgington. The band creates a mixture of instruments, vocals, and storytelling similar to other bands from the indie scene in their home town such as Bon Iver, Peter Wolf Crier, and Megafaun. For the band’s sophomore album, The Nature of Things, they wrote songs “to try to confine the arrangements to elements that the three…could perform”. Their classical voice training and pleasing, sometimes unexpected harmonies are evident throughout the album in pieces such as “Church” and “Ames, IA”. The album was recorded by Patrick Stolley, founding engineer for the music blog Daytrotter, and is filled with experimental structures and glowing yet dreary melodies and chords.

We digitally serviced the album’s first single, “Divorce” a few weeks ago, which premiered on Paste Magazine. KCMP will be featuring the track as “The Current Song of The Day” this Wednesday. Start with that track and see where the album takes you. As is explained in the Paste feature, the Eau Claire trio’s “album reflects a true simplicity, one that would be daunting to try and tackle, yet [they] do it with ease”.

RIYL: Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear, Father John Misty, Yellow Ostrich

Recommended tracks: track #2 “Divorce“, track #1 “I & Thou”, track #4 “We Fold Inside Of Us”, #9 “Pale Horse, Pale Rider”, track #11 “The Animal Of Choice”

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