Grant Lee Buffalo - Truly, Truly (Jubilee [1998])
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I completely missed these guys when they were around. This is a solid song on a solid album.
New Buffalo - Emotional Champ (Somewhere, Anywhere [2007])
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All in all this album is a bit too vague. It plays at being too experimental and cool. I remember being friends with this girl in college. She was pretty artsy and stuff. When another friend of mine met her, her comment was something like, "Why does she dress so ugly? I think she does it on purpose to seem different and cool." She wasn't saying this to be mean, she was saying this because she did really dress ugly. Listening to this album I have a similar reaction. She shows with this song that you can be cool and still write a song that has a bit of pop appeal. You can maintain your integrity and still create something nice to listen to. But most of the album has a bit of an overdone artsy, experimental, folksy edge.
