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Classic Album Review: Early Day Miners | All Harm Ends Here

This came out in 2005 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):

 


Just because a band has three guitarists doesn’t mean they play Freebird.

Look at Indiana’s Early Day Miners. They use their triple-axe lineup to weave lush, thick tapestries of sound — all the better to decorate their intimately intense brand of shadowy slo-core. OK, maybe their sound seems a bit dated these days. But even the usual catalogue of whispery vocals, sleepwalking grooves and dreamscape production on their fourth album All Harm Ends Here benefit from the restrained, well-executed interplay of this trio of fretboard technicians. If they leave here tomorrow, we would still remember them.