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Title: dream pop
Review: While Husik went onto more acclaim with her later electonica, this and her next album, Your Bag, are more akin to the V.U., Syd Barrett's solo work, or Josephine Wiggs' early project, Honeytongue. It's all dreamy, languid, echoey, and wonderful. Hers is very personal music - not singer/songwriter confessional but music born of dark dreams, hazey and strongly imagistic. Husik writes great melodies and does great things with her layering of electric guitars. The standout song for me is "Farmhouse," which is by turns delicate and ferocious, all seamlessly intertwined. "I passed a farmhouse / lit up in a lonely field. / It's so cold on a winter's road, / farmhouses lit up like gold..."Many became popular for similar but less striking music. If you like 'shoe gazing' or 'dreampop', this is for you.
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