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Take a guitar, a cajon, a mandolin and three dudes from Columbia, MD, who’ve been friends since high school, toss them in a room and if you stayed, they’d probably be playing music three hours later and you’d love it! This lengthy EP from Splendor Tree<\/strong> is a collection of songs Austin Sebek, Ben Woo, and Caleb Woo have recorded on their musical journey and recently released as a whole. What I’ve Been Looking For<\/em>, encapsulates neo folk in a lazy river journey way. This is the sort of album that you’d want to hang out with while reclining on a pastoral landscape or a calm sea shore.<\/p>\n The vocals are a mix of haunting, earnest introspection that are almost spoken like a prayer, while the percussion gently urges in the listener into listening without drifting too far into sleep. Lyrically, these songs are devotional in nature, and excellently woven together in a tapestry that is intelligent and intriguing. Meditative and alluring, this is an excellent collection, beginning with “What I’ve Been Looking For,” moving into a quiet “Strength,” reaching an urgent undercurrent of fervor with “How Beautiful” and drifting over an “Ocean” till ending at a peaceful “Home.”<\/p>\n Often times, when an album says it was recorded in basements and self recorded, usually there’s an expectation that the quality is going to sound a little rough around the edges and unevenly mixed. If they hadn’t explicitly stated that these tracks were recorded in basements, I would have expected that the recordings were done in a studio and mixed by someone who’s been doing this for a lengthy while. This collection sounds so good. Let me type that again, it sounds so good.<\/p>\n Currently, Splendor Tree has What I’ve Been Looking For<\/em> available for download on noisetrade<\/a> for donation. Give them a like if you are on Facebook<\/a>, and check out their website<\/a> after you download it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Take a guitar, a cajon, a mandolin and three dudes from Columbia, MD, who’ve been friends since high school,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[544,7,61,72,9],"tags":[23,12,71,24,75,22,25,17,73,74],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-544","category-eps-and-singles","category-folk","category-meditation","category-singer-songwriter","tag-christian","tag-christian-music-reviews","tag-folk","tag-jesus","tag-neo-folk","tag-new-music","tag-solid-ground","tag-solid-ground-reviews","tag-splendor-tree","tag-what-ive-been-looking-for"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/solidgroundreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/SplendorTree-WhatIveBeenLookingFor603x449.jpeg?fit=603%2C449&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7NJiN-13","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/solidgroundreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}