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Three Brown Finches
Rock · 2002 · 25 tracks

Three Brown Finches

Dirty Projectors

A sprawling, lo-fi collection of 25 sketches. Jittery acoustic guitars and raw, unpolished vocals capture the frantic creative birth of a singular art-pop mind.

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It's like a secret diary of genius folk-sketches before the band got famous and complicated.

A restless, intellectual solitude that feels like a private workshop for future masterpieces.

Three Brown Finches · vs · Dirty Projectors
Raw+3.4σ

The vocals lean far further into raw than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 25 Tracks
01
A Labor More Restful
02
Boredom Is A Product
03
Like Fake Blood In Crisp October
04
The Glad Fact
05
My Ground Underfoot
06
Her Freezings And Thawings
07
How Many Times Will My Leaves Come Down
08
The Mission Is The Point
09
Obscure Wisdom
10
Agnus Dei Of Miami
11
Spirit-Future Medley
12
The Klarinettist (To Hank)
13
Then He Gave It Cartilage
14
Here Comes The Summer King
15
Lit From Below
16
Two Brown Finches
17
Three Brown Finches
18
A Labor More Restful (v. 1.0)
19
After Santa Monica Boulevard
20
Ganabama
21
Maybe Rhode Island
22
The Enterprising Catalyst
23
The Queen Of Kath-Arcade
24
We Two Feared The Storm
25
To An Imaginary Love
Moments Worth Waiting For
The skeletal and intimate acoustic strumming on How Many Times Will My Leaves Come Down that feels like a private confession.
The jarring transition into the full band arrangement of A Labor More Restful which provides a rare moment of kinetic energy.
The strange, whistling woodwind textures buried in the mix of The Klarinettist (To Hank).
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