Beachwood Sparks - The Tarnished Gold

The world has caught up to Beachwood Sparks since they came out of nowhere in 2000 with their self-titled debut album, bringing new life to what Gram Parsons famously described as "cosmic American music," and recapturing L.A.'s laidback but vibrant heyday back in the late '60s and early '70s. At the time, this kind of harmony-rich, irony-free music was rare. After their second album, 2002's trippier Once We Were Trees, and the decidedly offbeat 2003 EP Make the Cowboy Robots Cry, Beachwood Sparks called it quits. But during the subsequent half decade, the indie music scene began to change with the appearance, and wholesale acceptance, of multi-voiced throwback groups from Fleet Foxes to Bon Iver to Grizzly Bear. Clearly, the time is right for an album that stands as the purest expression of this hallowed form to appear in the 21st century, as the planets at long last align for this single-minded band. With "The Tarnished Gold", Los Angeles, CA's much-beloved BEACHWOOD SPARKS return wi Style: Independent