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  The Rural Alberta Advantage, 'Departing' (Saddle Creek)

  March 1, 2011 – It's intriguing when Jeff Mangum sound-alike Nils Edenloff opens his art-folk band's scrappy yet diverse second album with a promise to hold on so tight that he'll crush his lover's veins. Perhaps, one imagines for a moment, Edenloff might be that rare songwriting quantity: a faithful chronicler of the beautifully bizarre. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: New Song from Rural Alberta Advantage

  February 22, 2011 – Like many of their labelmates on Omaha, Nebraska, indie imprint Saddle Creek, the Rural Alberta Advantage thrive on ornate, heartfelt storytelling, tied to the heartland - in their case rural Alberta, Canada. …
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• The Rural Alberta Advantage, 'Hometowns' (Saddle Creek)

  September 1, 2009 – Spotting influences on this Canadian band's winning debut doesn't take much work: "Luciana" could easily pass as an outtake from Neutral Milk Hotel's debut, and both the Shins' sweet winsomeness and Arcade Fire's collective clattering poke out elsewhere. But chief architect Nils Edenloff never gets bogged down in slavish imitation. …
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