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• Artist: Early Day Miners
• Album: Offshore
• Label: Secretly Canadian
• Year of Release: 2006
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• Reviewed by: dscanland on 2006-09-06

Early Day Miners is one of those bands that have never really got the attention they deserve. They aren't a band that demand it either. Head Miner, Daniel Burton has been putting out albums for the better part of the decade under the Early Day Miners monicker and to pretty decent acclaim. Offshore is an album that was composed back when Daniel created his quintessential Let Us Garlands Bring and has finally come around to finishing the album. It is a dark album. The opening track of Offshore, "Land of Pale Saints" sounds like something that was taken from Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen album. It is a 9 minute instrumental that really sets the moody atmosphere for the rest of the album. Daniel Burton introduces his subdued vocals on "Deserter", by far the album's best track, evoking some of his mentor's (Daniel Lanois) sensibilities. "Sans Revival" shows that Burton isn't all dark, with a slight ray of hope. Amber Webber of Black Mountain fame helps out on gentle "Return of the Native", on which I love the guitar lines. The album ends with quite the epic, "Hymn Beneath The Palisades" seems more like a middle of the album sort of track. It ends quite loud and leaves you wanting more, maybe closure on this recording would have been more appropriate.

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