Early Day Miners – The Treatment

On their sixth-full length, The Treatment, Indiana’s Early Day Miners have somewhat changed directions without really changing at all. There are still the repetitive and atmospheric elements of the band’s sound full intact, but there’s much more melody here than I expected. Despite the bands new found focus on a poppier sound, Early Day Miners still manage to create sweeping shimmering songs that (before you know it) are pulling you deeper in as they did on records like Offshore. It’s as if the band is channeling their inner New Order on one side and Peter Gabriel on the other and filtering it through a Psychocandy-esqe haze as guitars and organs are layered in waves of melody. It’s a beautiful album that you could either dance to (albeit slowly) or just fall asleep to. Early Day Miners have, with The Treatment, made their finest album yet and one of the finest of 2009. It’s out now on the always consistently great Secretly Canadian label.

MP3:
Early Day Miners - So Slowly