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The Microphones were my first venture into the tactile realms of music. I’ve always been a tech junky, I had a mp3 player before I had any mp3s. But there was something about the Glow Pt. 2 that compelled me go  to the Laney College flea market and buy a record player, along with 40 or so albums on beat up vinyl. Vinyl probably bought, and sold by college school students in a two year cycle, after realizing the Velvet Underground isn’t good enough to warrant lugging around a 90 lb box of records. But I kept my Microphones records, that might be a testament to my love of the Microphones, or my hatred of the Velvet Underground.
Mount Eerie who evolved from the Microphones have just released a new album, a collaboration with Canadian singer, Julie Doiron, and is  the prettiest albums i’ve heard this year. Voices in Headphones was so well crafted It made me want to bury my ipod, dust off my SLR, and take over-exposed pictures of dusty puddles.  Listen to it staring at your ceiling, picturing clouds casting shadows on rickety wooden houses, and pondering your existence. If you hate it, its only like 20 minutes, so stop complaining.

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