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Precious Fathers
12+ albums
post-rockambientinstrumentalCanadianthank God for this music
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Vancouver instrumental post-rock ensemble comprising Josh Lindstrom, Jaret Penner, Tim Loewen, and Paul Goertzen. A self-titled debut was released in 2005, and a second album is due out June 23 2009. Linked to other projects such as Destroyer, Loscil, Sparrow, Battles, and more. See also the Myspace or White Whale Records. "F*** having a singer, these guys don't need one!" -Ain't it Now Magazine "If Tortoise dated Neil but cheated on him in a three-way with Trans Am and Fogerty..." -Patron, Railway Club, Vancouver BC 12:17 am These two fake quotes basically sum up what it would take traditional music writers 300 flowery words to say. But in all honesty, the truth is right there. There is driving rhythm and wide open spaces. There are layers of sound that fill the moments, rising, building and falling off again. There see? flowery words... It's so easy to do. Regardless, a useful, basic history might be that the Precious Fathers are a four piece, 50% of them are actual fathers and they practice in a barn in unincoporated territory outside of Vancouver, BC. Their lives consist of children, farming, painting and car stereo installations. And it shows. Friends before fathers, they have continually managed to explore instrumental rock with a sense of smart, intelligent pleasure that carries you along with it and reminds you of different times in your life; a road trip down the rolling, dead-straight highways of Montana, or waiting for a ferry with a snow cone in your han
