.Blind Pilot

3 Rounds and a Sound

Blind Pilot’s core is two Portlanders, Israel Nebeker and Ryan
Dobrowski, who play guitar and drums, and who have toured the United
States on their bicycles. Any duo who can cart around all of their
equipment on bicycles obviously plays stripped-down music; Blind
Pilot’s sound is acoustic-guitar-focused folk-pop, with sparse, quiet
drums. But that’s not all that’s stripped down about Blind Pilot. Many
guys can get together and write sweet little pop songs à la the
Shins, but Blind Pilot’s deep earnestness and captivating melodies lend
its music a certain intoxicating romanticism. The members wear their
hearts on their sleeves. Their music is so essentially simple and so
immediately loved by many because of that resonance of bareness,
delivered in lyrical metaphor and chords you could play yourself, drunk
and sad on a Saturday night.

On 3 Rounds and a Sound, Blind Pilot adds the occasional
banjo, horn section, and string flourish, all of which add just enough
of an artistic touch. The stars of the show here are Nebeker’s vocals
and lyrics. Your breath was courage laced with alcohol, sings
Nebeker on “Oviedo,” you leaned in and said, “Make music with
the chatter in here and whisper all the notes in my ear.”

That is a perfect description of what Blind Pilot does: makes soft
music out of chatter, whispered seductively into your ears.
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