Steve,
 A difficult one for me because I got them all as they were released. I always like to go to the beginning and that would be "Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty"[love just typing that title], just to illustrate their approach to beauty.I also really enjoy "Pictorial Jackson Review" and that shows how they stretched into pop. 2 songs that are musts are "Primitive Painters"[with the Cocteau Twins], and "Ballad of the Band" and both of those are on "Stains on a decade", a good collection. "Ballad" shows off Lawrence's "Dylan" voice.
It is a long journey with splashes of jazz and even ambient guitars. But if you fall in love with Lawrence,as I did, you have a lot of ground to cover. After Felt there is Denim "Back in Denim" and Go Kart Mozart's "Tearing up the album Chart".These are lighter and frivolous ,but I would be lost without them.

  Gene
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:24:14 +0000
> From: underthefloat@msn.com
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Felt
> 
> I was searching around on emusic and decided to download 
> Felt's "Forever Breathes The Lonely Word". The reviews indicated the 
> lead singer was obsessed with Television and I thought that sounded 
> like something worth checking out (Felt is just another one of those 
> bands I've heard of but had never heard). 
> Anyway, I'm really loving this disc! Perhaps, Television influenced but 
> with more rounded pop edges (if that makes any sense). To my ears it 
> stands up well on it's own legs.
> 
> Anyway, the usual question. What should I check out next, how deep 
> should I dig, what's to avoid, etc? 
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Steve D.
> 
> 

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