Dear Companion, the recent rustic collaboration between young multi-instrumentalists and co-vocalists Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore, was recently praised by Pitchfork for its creative attack on mountaintop removal mining in their home state of Kentucky. With two astonishing, cello-stoked opening tracks ("Something, Somewhere, Sometime" and "My Wealth Comes To Me") the album protests artfully on the side of beauty and love for Cold Springs and Lexington boys Moore and Sollee for their Sub Pop debut, against an outrageously exploitative economic system of environmental damage.
This is the opener for the uniquely thematic Sub Pop album, and also my favorite track on the record:
Sweet songs from some of our fave artists!
Latest comment by: Rebecca : "I think the songs on this CD are GREAT -every last one of them because although they are re-makes of already existing songs they are still new and unique in their style... which is nice. It's really good to listen to when you're in one of those romantic or relaxed ...
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