Ships

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AlbumMay 09 / 200611 songs, 42m 15s
Indie Pop
Popular
9.1 / 10

Art-rock collective ringleader Daniel Smith transforms his tangled song fragments and inimitable vocal style into a highly contagious, beautifully ramshackle record.

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The recent documentary Danielson: A Family Movie presents a positive view of alt-Christian indie-rocker Daniel Smith, detailing his decade of staging quasi-religious theatrical "happenings" in dingy nightclubs across the country. Most provocatively, director JL Aronson implies that folk-pop sensation Sufjan Stevens…

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Ask New Jersey's Danielson; a group that fully embraces the melodic musings of Montreal on new album 'Ships'.

9.0 / 10

With nearly 40 contributors to Ships, it is no surprise that this is a loud, elaborate sounding album.

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Daniel (AKA Danielson) Smith's unique singing voice answers the unasked question: What would it sound like if Rush's Geddy Lee had gone all experimental?...

<p>(Secretly Canadian)</p>

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