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We’d like to tell you that we write our songs in an abandoned airplane hangar, just to account for all the echoing, but that would be very untrue and a little fanciful. Instead, most of the songwriting occurs in the wee hours of the morning, travelling on a shivering bus to nowhere important. Because we are without sleep, we are well-acquainted with the mysterious feeling the city leaves you with when you walk out to the empty streets at 6am with the first few cars quietly puffing along. At this hour, the most comforting thing is a bubbling kettle for tea, or perhaps the little tunes that simmer up inside as you scurry down a chilly sidewalk; both offer a much needed warmth, for which we are equally thankful and dependent upon…

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applie wrote:
last week

<3 !!!!

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jjaavviieerr wrote:
last month

amazing music here

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royalpoet wrote:
August 2009

Superb band. Some ringing guitars, some noise. All good.

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NastusyaCAT wrote:
July 2009

This music are So Wonderful ! I'm IN LOVE !!!

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fkarpinski31 wrote:
May 2009

super legal...*)

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relax29 wrote:
May 2009

cool. :-)

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anagain wrote:
May 2009

Sounds somewhat like early REM, and early REM was great. I think it's the jangliness of it...

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AlcoholicAsya wrote:
April 2009

I have fallen in love with your music

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borntohang wrote:
December 2008

Red Fox and Icing Sugar are marvellous and so beautful.

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alongwaltz wrote:
November 2008

That first Laneways tracklisting up there is all wrong.

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prunellaluke wrote:
October 2008

'Up All Night' *is* pretty incredible.Might prove that if a band/label offers free downloads, you end up buying the stuff. Works on me, anyway...

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yin-wei90 wrote:
August 2008

you're so wonderful is magic

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lintumies wrote:
June 2008

Just received Up All Night. Sounds pretty incredible!

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luxy_oh wrote:
June 2008

can someone please, please please find or post their lyrics?

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bed-sitter wrote:
April 2008

<3

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Mizuhara wrote:
March 2008

Wonderful band! fikadika!

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jixxx wrote:
February 2008

Icing Sugar <3

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mkorchia wrote:
March 2007

i'm so jealous, how could you get felt in your similar artists? :D

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modernenglish wrote:
January 2007

oh, i do like leaps and bounds.

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Ohllie wrote:
January 2007

Sounds great.

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