These days, prompted by one of the many suggestions from @ALFAMA, I revisited an old, shall we say, "acquaintance."

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Boduf Songs - Lion Devours The Sun (Kranky, October 30, 2006)

I dusted off this little disc from my old listens, released on Kranky Records in 2006. Boduf Songs is the project of Mat Sweet, a particularly sensitive singer-songwriter and musician who has been one of the most interesting artists for years when it comes to a certain folk rooted in compositional minimalism and who engages in long, often monothematic constructions of guitar arpeggios accompanied by true whispers and hints of experimentation that may remind one of the compositional style of Matt Elliott and the experience reminiscent of Third Eye Foundation. Perhaps Mat's style is more rustic and less neo-classical, closer to certain simplified forms of primitivism rather than derived from a tradition of electroacoustic chansonniers. "Lion Devours The Sun," as mentioned, came out in 2006 and can be considered a classic album in the style of the Southampton artist, with songs that may evoke a certain singer-songwriter vibe akin to Elliott Smith or even Conor Oberst himself, built on minimal arpeggios and arrangements that then expand into experimental noise experiences manifesting as long introductory sessions or noise coda, where a certain darkness permeating the writing of this author is fragmented into a thousand pieces and is annihilated by the overwhelming return of the typical light at the end of the tunnel. As sophisticated and elegant as it is essential, and this is a great merit.

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