Inland Traveller, by Isolation Years

Inland Traveller

by Isolation Years

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	1.	Talking (introduction) 00:58
	2.	Talkin' Backward Masking Blues 03:06
	3.	I'm Gonna Flip 03:35
	4.	Hemisphere 03:42
	5.	Cold Morning In Minusinsk 03:50
	6.	Inland Traveller 03:37
	7.	New Start 04:26
	8.	Goblins And Pines 01:46
	9.	Light The Torch 04:06
	10.	Maranata Club Lounge 02:49
	11.	Meltin' Minds 04:30
	12.	Green On White 06:15

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Inland Traveller is the debut album from Scandinavian quintet Isolation Years. The band, from Umeå in northern Sweden, employs a wide array of traditional folk (accordion, saw, mandolin) and rock instrumentation (vocals, guitar, bass, drums) and filters their songs through an elemental and psychedelic spiritualism.

For fans of American Music Club, Neutral Milk Hotel, and the early albums by The Soundtrack of Our Lives, with broad hints of The Beatles, Neil Young, Calexico, and Bright Eyes to boot.

The band's unswerving attention to depth and detail within a song, along with vocalist Jakob Nystrom's haunting voice and arcane lyrical imagery, recall some of finest folksingers alive today. Is he singing about alien abduction or Armageddon...or just winter?

Comes With A Smile: "A supercharged, overdriven debut album from a new breed of northern cowboys, all angst-ridden pomposity and chaotic, paranoid lyrical imagery& Chock-full of immediate hooks and rousing performances, what really gets you however, is the fine careful delivery on a track like "Cold Morning In Minusinsk", which sounds a bit like that other Scandinavian country-preacher, St. Thomas, on a really good day. A song like "Talkin' Backward Masking Blues" could single-handedly revive the trombone's position in modern day music, while closing track "Green On White" is a piece of full-on country psychedelia, enough to scare the pants off of most people but Alejandro Escovedo. Yes, it's that good."

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released November 4, 2003

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Galaxy Gramophone Urbana, Illinois

Label named after The Soundtrack of Our Lives' song. Swedish Rock, Folk, Psych, Pop, etc.

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