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SMALL SUR
AGENT: MATTHEW
AVAILABILITY:
SEE AVAILS /
UPCOMING SHOWS
TOOLS:
MAKE AN OFFER
/
PROMO MATERIALS
/
PUBLICITY
BAND SITES:
OFFICIAL BAND WEBSITE
/
MYSPACE PAGE
LABEL:
TENDER
LOVING EMPIRE (US) /
AURAL STATES (US)
FREE MP3:
Weeds
HOMETOWN: Baltimore,
MD
DISCOGRAPHY:
2011 - TONES COMING
SOON
2010 - BARE BLACK EP
2008 - WE LIVE IN HOUSES
MADE OF WOOD CD
2006 - SMALL SUR
EP
BIO:
Small Sur is the primary
musical alias of Baltimore-based songwriter Bob Keal and
current collaborators Austin Stahl and Andy Abelow. The
project was born during the spring of 2005 in a friend’s
Southern California bedroom, where Keal recorded the
self-titled Small Sur EP shortly before relocating to
the East Coast. The EP saw a limited release on The
Beechfields Record Label in 2006 and quickly went out of
print. 2008 marked the release of their full-length
debut, We Live in Houses Made of Wood, which garnered
critical praise from the likes of Tiny Mix Tapes and
NPR.
With the addition of 2010’s Bare Black EP and 2011’s
forthcoming Tones, which features instrumental and vocal
contributions from Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack,
Small Sur’s gracefully growing discography emerges as
the next great discovery to spring forth from the lauded
and active Baltimore scene - refining the band’s
singular, understated ability to capture and extend
life’s fleeting moments of breathtaking beauty.
REVIEWS:
Saturated in the lush,
warm drone of hum, singing pedal-steel, the sparest
of guitar, the mildest coat of alto sax, and tempos
in the range of moon-gravity slow motion. And then
[Bare Black] is over...it’s the sort of thing with
such a satisfying wholeness that it feels like more
than the sum of its parts. More, please.
- Baltimore City Paper
By turns stoic, dark, and exuberant, but always sparse
and expansive, We Live in Houses Made of Wood strikes
remarkably close to its mark.
- Tiny Mix Tapes
Its [We Live in Houses Made of Wood] serene minimalism
conjures large expanses of natural landscapes at their
most beautiful.
- NPR
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