This Alone Above All Else In Spite Of Everything

Stepping back and considering the album as a whole, I cannot help but be impressed at how Boduf Songs bring together such a heavy atmosphere with so much melody. This Alone Above All Else in Spite of Everything sounds unified in a way that many other albums fail to achieve; I can understand why this is on LP only as it forces us to digest the album in one sitting instead of it being put on shuffle or dissected into playlists. The darkly transcendental lyrics sketch out grim but psychedelic episodes which weave together around a central point. The thematic elements of the album run like stitches through the songs, drawing them tight to each other and each one revealing a little of another. The overall impact of the album increases with each time I listen to it, I can say now that this will be looked back on as a highpoint in Boduf Songs’ already superb oeuvre. John Kealy, Brainwashed, 2010

The unrelenting bible black bleakness throughout the majority of its run time can get a little taxing by the end... Kenny Bloggins, The Decibel Tolls, 2010

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Available on vinyl LP from Kranky, Ltd.

and on CD from Under The Spire

How Shadows Chase the Balance

How Shadows Chase the Balance is among the most spiritually and psychologically devastating albums I’ve ever heard, but it’s also a simple album about living life, about our peculiar position in the universe and the candid exploration of the impact those experiences have on all of us. It’s also, by a large margin, one of the strongest albums I’ve heard this year. Gabriel Keehn, Tiny Mix Tapes, 2008

... the music never becomes inpenetrable, offputting or "interesting" but, alas, unlistenable. If it seems a strange critical tack to praise an independent musician by downplaying his underground credentials or off-road tendencies, it's only because I think music fans who might otherwise be put off by indier-than-thou rhetoric would actually really dig Boduf Songs. Amy Granzin, Pitchfork, 2009

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Available from Kranky, Ltd.

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Lion Devours the Sun

Hauntingly beautiful music that is oft mistakenly labeled "folk." This is something darker, something much more sinister, and Mat Sweet's songwriting muse dives into the troubled waters of a tormented soul and the mysterious forests of the mind. It's an album best experienced whole, alone, in a dark room. This is the best record of the year, period. Joseph Kyle, MundaneSounds.com, 2006

I really wanted to like this but there were too many arpeggios and not enough ideas. Frances Morgan, Plan B magazine, 2006

Available from Kranky, Ltd.

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Boduf Songs

These morose incantations, these burnished prayers were wrought with great care and intelligence – emotional, musical, and dare I say spiritual. What spirits are invoked I don’t know, but I imagine they are as riveted as I am to these haunted musings. 9/10 Sal Addays, foxydigitalis.com, 2005

However, there is too little on this album to prove the skills of the composer. Piero Scaruffi, scaruffi.com 2005

Available from Kranky, Ltd.

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Inviolate Projection, Blood From Rome (blankets)

10" vinyl release on Bluesanct.

One 12 minute song on the A side, screen print on the back. Original art by Johannes Høie.

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"The Strait Gait" or "A Great Difficulty in Getting to Heaven"

Southern Records Latitudes series E.P.

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2008 USA/Canada Tour EP

4 songs recorded on one microphone in a field in France at twilight with birds and stuff all noisey in the back.
Hand assembled packaging with insert, limited edition of 200.

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There Is Something Hanging Above You 3"CD

5 song CD with teeny tiny lyric booklet, released by Under The Spire.

On the Brink of All We Hate b/w Every Day is Like Sunday

Lathe cut 7" on the 5MA label. Comes in letterpressed box with fold over letterpressed binding, two sreen printed 7" posters, digitally printed card, vellum insert, individual polaroid photo and 1" pin/badge.

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Brainwaves 2008 3XCD

"Left Behind Like A Piece Of Shit"

3 CD set featuring artists from the Brainwaves Festival, 2008. Available here.

Peace (for mom)

"Little Song For Jon"

Benefit CD, number 5 in the Brainwashed Handmade series, compiled by Jon Whitney and dedicated to his mother, with all proceeds donated to The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.

Information and purchase available here.

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