Reservoir by Fanfarlo

Reservoir, the 2009 debut from London indie folk outfit Fanfarlo, was cut in October and November 2008 at Tarquin Studios in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with Peter Katis producing. The band, started in 2006 by the Swedish musician Simon Balthazar, never met an instrument they couldn't fold into a song: trumpet, violin, mandolin, clarinet, saxophone, even a musical saw, all stitched onto a frame of folk, indie rock and a little post-punk nerve.

A couple of the songs were already old friends by the time the album arrived. "Fire Escape" and "Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait for a Very Long Time", the one with the gloriously unwieldy title that the countdowns kept returning to, had first surfaced on earlier EPs. Three more singles, "Drowning Men", "The Walls Are Coming Down" and "I'm a Pilot", followed over the summer of 2009.

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