Foolish Things to Hear
The fool behind the happenin' cultural weblog "a fool in the forest" believes these fine contemporary recordings will fill your ears, or other ears you care for, with pleasures galore . . .
Sweet Billy PilgrimThe AcrobatAll Good Dreamers Pass This Way
Sweet Billy Pilgrim
by Sweet Billy Pilgrim
$38.99
When I first touted this on the weblog I wrote: "This is music from a rainy country where the sun, on those occasions when it ...
The Acrobat
by Doveman
$18.99
Salon music writer Thomas Bartlett in his guise as Doveman. Piano, banjo, muted horns, strange ambient sounds in the wings, a...
All Good Dreamers Pass This Way
by Bedroom Walls

Romanticore, they call it. Now with extra string quartet. For the wistful shoegazer in all of us.
Foundation SoundsYsPalo Santo
Foundation Sounds
by Eric Matthews

Eric Matthews, mighty master of chamber pop, returns to form, writing, singing and playing every instrument (except for one lo...
Ys
by Joanna Newsom
$13.99
Palo Santo
by Shearwater

Indescribable. A unique amalgam of noises swirling around a voice from out of a dark dream. Lurching, lunging, drifting, an...
To Find Me GoneLife in the ShadeGarden Ruin
To Find Me Gone
by Vetiver
$14.98
This was the soundtrack of this fool's summer of 2006. Working much the same territory as the old-timey folky side of the Gra...
Life in the Shade
by Brookville
$12.98
More perfect pop, from Andy Chase of Ivy. How I wish popular radio sounded like this.
Garden Ruin
by Calexico
$15.98
A musical palette as wide as the Southwest, with Joey Burns singin' like a suspect angel.
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