Though it still errs toward a languid late-60s template, Cabic's songwriting is now crisp and effortlessly melodic.  Full text...

To Find Me Gone is one hell of a good album.  Full text...

"Been So Long," "No One Word," and "The Double" have an aimless charm, searching for a needle of melody in a haystack of reverb. The best two songs, "Won't Be Me" and "Maureen," are pop songs, but played in a laidback country-rock style.  Full text...

It's as subtle and rewarding as anything you'll hear in a long while.  Full text...

The dense, mesmeric groove of "You May Be Blue" recalls vintage Fleetwood Mac at their slinky best, while "No One Word" hovers in the darkened prairie evening on a smoky cloud of pedal steel and cello.  Full text...

His guitar squeaks and strums with effortless beauty while his voice is like Banhart's without the warble and Nick Drake's without the angst.  Full text...

It isn’t an album that pounds down your door; instead, it sets up camp in your front yard and tells you can come and hang out whenever you’re ready. At times, the laid-back vibe stretches out sections of the albums longer than necessary, but there are also a number of moments of lovely execution and reflection.  Full text...

It's a compelling, forward-thinking album that's as likely to please fans of melodic indie-pop and roots-rock as it is fans of the current crop of folk troubadours.   Full text...

The wonderful pleasures of folk pop.  Full text...

It's a collection that blurs beautifully from song-to-song, whilst possessing a melodic momentum its predecessor lacked.  Full text...

A hop and a skip away from any kind of “folk” music and a swan dive into smoove country waters.   Full text...