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White Light Strobing,Desolation Wilderness

- White Light Strobing
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  - 6 shares
Desolation Wilderness
Released 2008

Come Over In Your Silver Car
05:18
411 plays

Paris To New York
05:08
376 plays

USA Highway
04:27
366 plays

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- 1
- USA Highway
- 04:27
- 366 plays

- 2
- Come Over In Your Silver Car
- 05:18
- 411 plays

- 3
- And All The Boys Looked
- 04:01
- 339 plays

- 4
- Paris To New York
- 05:08
- 376 plays

- 5
- Leaving Song
- 03:56
- 232 plays

- 6
- Road Song
- 03:07
- 224 plays

- 7
- Forget Everything
- 02:29
- 269 plays

- 8
- Jupiter
- 04:40
- 319 plays

- 9
- Turquoise And Gold
- 02:34
- 308 plays

- 10
- Horizon Star
- 03:23
- 1,321 plays

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album review

Released on Calvin Johnson's K Records, Desolation Wilderness' White Light Strobing evokes that same fluttery feeling you might expect from the title. Along with guitarist Andrew Dorsett, bassist Adam Oelsner, and drummer Evan Hashi playing their respective instruments, Nicolas Zwart plugged synthesizers, guitars, xylophones, and glockenspiels into dusty tube amps and vintage effects units to drape everything in a sweeping blanket of washed out spring reverb and vibrating tremolo. It's a down-home, cozy, alt-country meets shoegaze tone made popular by bands like My Morning Jacket and Galaxie 500 with a slightly softer and warmer approach. Like on those bands' recordings, Zwart's lyrics hover breezily in the background, hauntingly like voices in hazy dreams. They're too liquefied to be deciphered easily, but between the oohs and ahs are lulling images of love and loss all swirling together in one ethereal dynamic that's perfect for hammock relaxation. ~ Jason Lymangrover, All Music Guide