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REVIEW: JACCO GARDNER

Jacco Gardner is a musician that's kind of hard to contextualize within the musical landscape of 2013. When I asked a handful of my friends what his music sounds like, it seemed telling that the best they could do was "uh, sorta like the Beatles." That's not a terrible comparison, though, despite the fact that every band after the Beatles sounds sorta like the Beatles. His recent release, entitled "Cabinet of Curiosities," seems remarkably estranged from the aesthetics our modern blogosphere dotes so heavily on: there's no lo-fi tape-hiss to be found, ethereal electronic soundscapes are few and far between, and nobody's mentioned "60's revivalist baroque-pop" since Grizzly Bear's 2006 release "Yellow House."