• The Penguin League, Antarctica Takes It!

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  Debut album by a four piece, from Santa Cruz, CA, whose joyous folk pop has been compared to Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists and Beirut. A bedroom band put together by 22-year-old Dylan McKeever, Antarctica Takes It! recorded the songs on The Penguin League straight onto a friend s laptop, using the computer s internal microphone. No problem if you re a straightforward rock n roll band, but Dylan s songs boasted an array of accordions, glockenspiels, cellos, ukuleles, trumpets, harmonicas and pianos. The result should have been extremely lo-fi and in places it is (you can actually hear the instruments battling for airpace at some points). But, overall, thanks to Dylan s patience and prodigious talent, The Penguin League conjures a tiny orchestra out of thin air. From the opening I m No Lover , which sees mariachi horns collide with a rattling folk melody, to the magical Flightless Birds , which transports Pet Sounds to the Antarctic wastes, this is a record that sounds like it s anywhere but a suburban bedroom on the American West Coast.
  
  1 I'm No Lover 1:34
  2 Circuits 2:53
  3 My Friend Sam Saarni 2:42
  4 Heart Of Stone 3:24
  5 The Song Is You 3:58
  6 Fog Song 2:27
  7 Flightless Birds 2:26
  8 Davenport Coast 3:49
  9 Antarctica 4:15
  10 Goodbye 1:33
  
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