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| | The Music Box: Turin Brakes - Ether Song |
 | | Both Radiohead and Travis released new albums in 2003, and for the first time since the their respective debuts, both ensembles appeared hesitant to stretch beyond their previous efforts. |
 | | Fear not, however, for the duo of Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, known as Turin Brakes, has come out of nowhere to deliver Ether Song, a dark, folk-pop outing that outshines both of its primary influences. |
 | | But its combination of bleak emotional outbursts, ethereal ambience, and melodic beauty, not to mention its meritorious convergence of moods both melancholic and mirthful — which often occur simultaneously — makes Turin Brakes this year’s heir apparent to the Jeff Buckley-meets-Nick Drake school of songwriting. |
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