psh–The Lonely Forest don’t sound anything like BoH but Phil Ek’s hands are -all over- BoH’s albums and they don’t sound like anything that would have come from outside of the NW to me, personally–the way the vocals and guitars were engineered and mixed hardly step a smidgen outside of the way he handled Built to Spill, the Shins, Modest Mouse, Fleet Foxes, etc. And more generally, musically they fit pretty comfortably with that whole horde of 90s-and-onward country/folk influenced indie pop/rock, don’t they? My two cents.
psh–The Lonely Forest don’t sound anything like BoH but Phil Ek’s hands are -all over- BoH’s albums and they don’t sound like anything that would have come from outside of the NW to me, personally–the way the vocals and guitars were engineered and mixed hardly step a smidgen outside of the way he handled Built to Spill, the Shins, Modest Mouse, Fleet Foxes, etc. And more generally, musically they fit pretty comfortably with that whole horde of 90s-and-onward country/folk influenced indie pop/rock, don’t they? My two cents.