With the addition of a full backing band -- and studio space for that matter -- since the 2001 release of the EP Celebs, experimental filmmaker and musician Kent Lambert of Roommate chose to go the indie-electronica route for the full-length Songs the Animals Taught Us. The album is much more in the vein of the Flaming Lips, though, than the Postal Service, using plenty of piano, acoustic guitar, bass, and even viola and bassoon to add intricacy and subtle, ironic poignancy to the m...   [ read more ]

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In 2006 Roommate -- which was at that point really the solo project of Kent Lambert -- issued the excellent Songs the Animals Taught Us, an album that was simultaneously full and sparse, which supplemented the electronic elements with various organic strings and layered vocals. In early 2007, Lambert, who by this time had assembled a full band, put out a digital-only EP which hinted at the direction things were headed, a direction only fully realized on We Were Enchanted, a wonderfully compl...   [ read more ]

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