"When listening, keep in mind artists such as Frederic Chopin, Cat Power, Keith Jarrett, Talk Talk, and Chris Whitley — unless you don’t know any [of] them or are not a fan, in which case you should keep in mind Nick Drake, The National, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky, and other, trendier bands whose music has recently appeared in car commercials."

Excerpted, verbatim save the one obvious amendment, from the back-cover text printed on promotional copies of With My Left Hand I Raise the Dead, a new CD by Doveman due out in October on the Brassland label. I’m not entirely sure that any artist could live up to these claims, but this is a very pretty album and I’m sorry I’ll be missing the show at Joe’s Pub on Wednesday, August 29.