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A Weather
Everyday Balloons
Team Love
Rating: 3.8 out of 5

Links:

A Weather: http://www.aweathermusic.com
Team Love: http://team-love.com/

Maybe it’s a result of me getting older, but I enjoy the times when I can sit peacefully in the back room, setting the creak of the rocking chair in a rhythmic pace while enjoying the sun peering in or looking out into the woods while capturing the beauty from an occasional redbird that flies by. A book sits on my lap if one of my cats does not get there first. And it’s that moment of life’s satisfaction that you get, like the moments where you catch yourself breathing and you feel completely aware of that breath. It’s the essence of being alive.

It’s that quiet solitude and pleasurable realization that I get out of A Weather’s Everyday Balloons. Aaron Gerber and Sarah Winchester move slow, about as slow as watching the flowers slowly come up in the spring. But it’s that slowness that reminds you to just sit back and soak it all in.

The way Gerber and Winchester (Aaron Krenkel and Lou Thomas complete the lineup) work together to bounce off breathy vocals. It’s the confidence they feel that get you, but the apparent subtleties are enough not to step on each other’s toes.

They kick around the dirt with “Ducks” while stepping up close to the mic on “Happiness.” And would I be happy to discover a song like “Newfallen” while sipping some coffee in a city shop? Damn right I would. I would want it nestled right there between a Karate song and Ida.

What a beautiful album this is.