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Aux Meadows first came to my attention with their great self entitled debut LP in 2022 in which Americana flirted shamelessly with stoned cosmic country and desert baked ambient. This was closely followed the next year by the equally accomplished Dust Kingdom where the trio kept their string heavy alt-roots blueprint, teasing the purists with the odd familiar tune or refrain before delighting the heads with regular descents into psychedelic and ambient Americana backwaters, well away from the MAGA cap wearing, Bud swilling good ol’ boys.
Draw Near continues their outsider vision of Americana, is released via the ever wayward Eiderdown Records and fittingly only exists in the Bandcamp backwaters, where only committed and adventurous music lovers dare to tread. (* Update. It’s now available to stream.) The LP starts off innocently enough with a couple of lightly stoned campfire scores, although the trio are soon mesmerised by the flames and drift off into deeper ambient reflection, lonesome six string laments, pleasantly distorted ambient guitar, genteel acoustic folk, drum machine powered acid-swampiness, spectral ambience, a siesta soundtrack and finish with a mighty fine slice of contemplative cosmic country. The trio have done it again, so ditch the algorithms and take a trip to Bandcamp.
Playlist Companion
Find Aux Meadows in fine alt-folk and deep roots company in the Slow Folk Playlist.
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