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Based in Portland, Oregon, Blitzen Trapper has been playing together since 2000 and has released five full-length albums to date, including their revelatory 2008 Sub Pop release Furr. Earley’s considerable poetic talents and his band’s hard-earned chops have gained them a growing international audience. The band’s sound explores American music that spans from the ‘60s folk movement to the country sounds of the ’70s, to the pop balladry and prog rock of the ’80s. They have earned notice from Rolling Stone magazine to late-night network television to Yo Gabba Gabba, among a great many others.
But there is more to Blitzen Trapper than those traditions. More than anything, the band credits its music to its Pacific Northwest home. It is there that the six members came together ten years ago and formed a creative cauldron from which would emerge numerous novels, a locally-celebrated play based on the film Manos: The Hands of Fate, innumerable art projects and, of course, a flood of fantastical songs.
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Their newest album, Destroyer of the Void, is only the latest work to emerge from this world, but it is one where their musical community is on full display. In January 2009 and again in January 2010, Earley and a few of his bandmates entered the attic studio of lauded Portland musician and studio engineer Mike Coykendall (Bright Eyes, M Ward, She & Him) to work on what would become their fifth record, Destroyer of the Void. The resulting new album takes Blitzen Trapper further than ever before, building on the band’s seamless marriage of the familiar and the fantastic to create an otherworldly experience.
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