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Merrill Garbus, the solo artist behind the tUnE-yArDs moniker, tells us on her MySpace page how "all these songs were recorded through a Sony digital voice recorder and tracked in Audacity. They are created from sounds from my life over the past two years". The resulting album, initially self-released and now re-released by 4AD, is every bit as intimate as that solo creation might lead you to expect. What's more of a surprise is the range and depth of scope achieved.

This is far, far removed from the kind of wishy-washy simple singer-songwritery fare that solo acts are sometimes too prone...

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