Artist	Song
Devendra Banhart	This Is the Way
from Rejoicing In the Hands (2004)
Joanna Newsom	Sprout and the Bean
from The Milk-Eyed Mender (2004)
M. Ward	Chinese Translation
from Post-War (2006)
Iron & Wine	Naked As We Came
from Our Endless Numbered Days (2004)
Bowerbirds	Northern Lights
from Upper Air (2009)
Antony & The Johnsons	Hope There's Someone
from Hope There's Someone - EP (2007)
CocoRosie	Noah's Ark
from Noah's Ark (2005)
Vetiver	You May Be Blue
from To Find Me Gone (2006)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy	Love Comes to Me
from The Letting Go (2006)
Beach House	Apple Orchard
from Beach House (2008)
Espers	Mansfield and Cyclops
from II (2006)
Brightblack Morning Light	Everybody Daylight
from Brightblack Morning Light (2006)
White Magic	Winds
from Dark Stars - EP (2007)
Animal Collective	My Girls
from Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
Six Organs of Admittance	Elk River
from For Octavio Paz (2004)

Comment:

As much as any self-respecting musician hates being pegged as part of a premeditated movement, the critic-created tag of "freak folk" is actually a fitting reference point for the following songs. The reason being that, yes, there's indeed something bizarre, something wholly unique happening beyond the acoustic backbone of these fireside jams. The vinyl-popping details include the otherworldly voices of Devendra Banhart, Antony, and Joanna Newsom, the piano-led whirlpool of White Magic, and Six Organs of Admittance's finger picked Expressionist paintings. Wait 'til you hear how loopy our Next Steps get, too.

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