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  Loch Lomond, 'Little Me Will Start a Storm' (Tender Loving Empire)

  February 22, 2011 – Elegant yet uneasy, this intriguing Portland sextet echoes the nervous grace of Arcade Fire and the New Pornographers, minus the electric charge. Frontman Ritchie Young can sing delicate and high or mournful and low, and while his dense chamber-pop songs employ clarinet, violin, mandolin, and marimba, they never feel overwrought. …
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• Loch Lomond, 'Night Bats' (Hush)

  November 10, 2009 – Named after a Scottish lake and led by a singer who sounds like Belle and Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, this Portland, Oregon quintet makes its best bid yet to faux-Scottish-ness with this plaintively melodic EP, whose five tracks are clearly inspired by the isle of twee pop and epic balladry. …
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  The Decemberists Debut New Tunes at Tour Opener

  November 6, 2008 – Some people are just made for the spotlight. Americans elected one of these people to the Oval Office Tuesday night. Wednesday, 3,000 New Yorkers gathered to support another: Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy, who, along with his merry supporting cast, opened the Portland, OR, band's U.S. …
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