New Buffalo
With a coolly attractive voice reminiscent of Emily Haines' deadpan sweetness and a sharper than average knack for both songwriting and arrangements, Sally Seltmann (who is, for all intent, New Buffalo) is Australia's strongest addition to the multinational cadre of folkish electronic artists that includes Beth Orton, Keren Ann, Feist, and former Concretes singer Victoria Bergsman. However, Seltmann's roots stretch back to the early '90s and the Sydney-based indie guitar rock scene that coalesced around the influential Half a Cow label. {$Se...[more]
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The worldwide debut full-length for Australia's Sally Seltmann aka New Buffalo. After garnering European acclaim for her About Last Night EP, she entered the studio with her hubby Darren Seltmann (The Avalanches) and recorded all the instruments herself, and turned out a profound set of lyrical pop gems using old organs, scratchy samples, and the help of Beth Orton and Jim White (Dirty Three).
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More than two years since the release of her much loved debut album, The Last Beautiful Day, Sally Seltmann, AKA New Buffalo, returns with her stunning second album Somewhere, anywhere. Seltmann is a soft-spoken songstress from Melbourne. Her last album was named one of the Top 50 Albums of 2004 by Rolling Stone. She also penned the song "1234," the debut single on Feist's new album, The Reminder. For the recording of Somewhere, anywhere, she moved to a sleepy, coastal town near the Gre [ read more ]
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More than two years since the release of her much loved debut album, The Last Beautiful Day, Sally Seltmann, AKA New Buffalo, returns with her stunning second album Somewhere, anywhere. Seltmann is a soft-spoken songstress from Melbourne. Her last album was named one of the Top 50 Albums of 2004 by Rolling Stone. She also penned the song '1234,' the debut single on Feist's new album, The Reminder. For the recording of Somewhere, anywhere, she moved to a sleepy, coastal town near the Gre [ read more ]
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New Buffalo is Melbourne, Australiaâ??s Sally Seltmann. At her home studio, she bunkered down to write, record and play everything on her stunning debut, The Last Beautiful Day. Largely composed of analog organs, scratchy samples, and layers of Seltmannâ??s thin-yet-tender voice, The Last Beautiful Day is a profound piece of personal expression, a collection of lyrical pop songs that are the product of a single individual. â??Top 50 albums of 2004.â?? â?? Rolling Stone Australia â??Devastatingly beautiful [ read more ]
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A collection of unreleased songs and reworkings of material from The Last Beautiful Day, Sally Seltmann's stunning debut. The New Buffalo EP includes a version of 'Inside,' featuring Jens Lekman, and a Broken Social Scene remix of the song, 'I've Got You and You've Got Me.' Seltmann's debut album was written and recorded in her home studio in Melbourne, Australia. Largely composed of analog organs, scratchy samples, and layers of Seltmannâ??s thin-yet-tender voice, The Last Beautiful Day made Rolling Sto [ read more ]
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Originally released in singer/songwriter Sally Seltmann's native Australia in 2004 before Broken Social Scene's label Arts and Crafts picked it up for international distribution the following year, New Buffalo's full-length debut blends electronic and acoustic instruments in richly textured arrangements. Conceptually similar to contemporaneous albums by Keren Ann, Emiliana Torrini, and Feist (who in 2007 would have a major international hit with her version of Seltmann's song {&"1234 [ read more ]
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