The Lumineers Cleopatra (180 Gram Vinyl) vintage 90's Al Jardine (guitar

Al Jardine (guitar

It was like nothing she had done before

Whiskeytown were one the mid-'90s wave of bands who approached American roots music--country

and some that I worked laboriously picking apart each word to make the perfect poem

hip-hop inflected alt-pop

The Lumineers Cleopatra (180 Gram Vinyl) vintage 90's Al Jardine (guitarMaybe the Lumineers got tired of hearing other bands replicate the big footed stomp of "Ho Hey," an aesthetic that was impossible to avoid in the wake of their eponymous 2012 debut. So many bands adopted this thunderous folk that it no longer seemed to belong to the Lumineers; it appeared communal, perhaps existing to the earlier generations the Lumineers so clearly loved yet never quite replicated. Given this omnipresence, maybe it's not a surprise