Change is coming. No matter what it is, we all feel it. Hints of Grandaddy filter through on waves of Wilco-esque banjo and guitar. Like his heroes XTC and Tom Waits, Sanko fashions oddly compelling songs from mangled melodies and ragged scraps of rhyme. The home recordings provide a wonderful contrast to Jason's polished studio efforts.
Some folks prefer a whisper to a scream.
The artists collected below are certainly in that category. But that is not to say that they don't have their own brand of hushed tones.