Able Baker Fox
Voices
Second Nature (2008)
A little over five years ago The Casket Lottery and Small Brown Bike released a collaborative 12" EP that proved to be more than a split recording as the two bands collaborated on most of the songs giving listeners quite a good record. Now, in hindsight, this effort served as a portent of things to come with the release of Able Baker Fox's album, Voices. This new band is comprised by Nathan Ellis (of The Casket Lottery, Coalesce, and Jackie Carol), Mike and Ben Reed from Small Brown Bike, and Jeff Gensterblum, also of Small Brown Bike; and the group sounds almost exactly as one would expect given their collective past history and the previously spoken of past EP. The announcement of Voices was simultaneously unexpected but exciting nonetheless at the possibilities of what Able Baker Fox could produce; and the album is everything that one, or rather I, would hope it to be. The jangley guitars that are joined by the familiar voice of Ellis prove to be a great opening of the album in "October," and the nice dynamic of mixing in Ben Reed's vocals really adds a nice interplay of sounds; the music is very angular sounding … Read more
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Collapse (2007)
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Where Our Failures Are
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The Burden of Ballast
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The Fish Don't Mind
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