The Hippodrome

One of my favorite new blogs is BiBaBiDi. While the site has been around a bit longer than FensePost, I am a newbie in checking it on a daily basis. Simply put, I trust the guy’s opinion. The daily posts cover music I appreciate and the look and feel is very modern and hip. So why all this regarding a separate blog? Well, because a recent post covered an upcoming album I just received. That artist is The Old Believers and their album, out July 10 by their own release, is called Eight Golden Greats.

The Old Believers’ style of old-time folk-pop appears to take hints from the 60s and 70s style folk in the same manner as She And Him did on their recent debut Volume One. There’s an abnormally heavy emphasis on percussion, which sets The Old Believers aside from your traditional folk-pop artist, but where someone like The Lovely Sparrows focuses this effort on cymbals, The Old Believers do so on the bass drum.

Then they switch back and forth between crafty, romantic male- and female-fronted vocals. While I have yet to delve too far into the album, I wanted to begin spreading the word as this release is quite phenomenal. Expect a glowing review of Eight Golden Greats come July.

Audio: Granny’s Song
Audio: The Trouble I’ve Met

(This post was contributed by Andrew Fenstermaker of FensePost)

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