The Cave Singers

The Cave Singers — Welcome Joy

Making enjoyable but uncluttered music is no easy feat. More often than not, simplicity has the tendency to lead to a boring listening experience. Seattle's Cave Singers have stumbled upon a balance of sparseness and melody that few bands have the patience to find with their second full-length. Black Mountain's scent is all over Welcome Joy,...
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The Cave Singers' Welcome Joy

The Cave Singers — Invitation Songs

How you feel about The Cave Singers depends entirely on what you think of lead singer Pete Quirk's peculiar drawl. It's shrill, tense and doesn't have a great deal of range, but it's also so distinctive that it lifts these folk oddities above so many also-rans. It helps that guitarist Derek Fudesco (Murder City Devils, Pretty Girls Make Graves)...
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Invitation Songs

Black Mountain Bring The Future To The Present

If earplugs didn't exist, I would be deaf right now. Well, if that was the case, I'd probably have gone deaf a long time ago. But, suspending reality for a moment, if Friday night's show at the Horseshoe was the first I'd ever been to and earplugs didn't exist, then I would, in fact, be deaf right now. Thankfully, this isn't the case on either...
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The Cave Singers — No Witch

Seattle's Cave Singers have become known for their jammy, acoustic-guitar-laden and harmony-heavy albums and performances since forming in 2007. No Witch, their third studio release, finds Pete Quirk, Derek Fudesco and and Marty Lund changing things up a wee bit. While most of the LP's tunes are what you'd expect from the trio, there are a few...
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Lightning Dust Touring With Cave Singers

Lightning Dust have announced a few Canadian dates, and will spend September and October playing shows throughout North America with The Cave Singers. Black Mountain members Joshua Wells and Amber Webber are out in support of the recently released Infinite Light, while The Cave Singers are touring behind Invitation Songs. If you want to see...
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The Cave Singers Emerge From Graves

As Pretty Girls Make Graves move closer to their demise with a farewell tour that ends on June 9 in their hometown of Seattle, bassist Derek Fudesco is already looking to the next phase of his career. Fudesco, percussionist Mary Lund (Cobra High) and Pete Quirk (Hint Hint) have signed a deal with Matador Records to release an album called...
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