To Find Me Gone

Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart comrade Andy Cabic's band Vetiver (they've backed Newsom and Banhart often plays with the band) released its second full-length, TO FIND ME GONE, in 2006. While the crystalline atmospherics on the opener, "Been So Long," and the piercing guitar drones that invade "Red Lantern Girls" are effective reminders that this is music rooted in the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic tradition, but better still is the album's ramshackle acoustic-driven shuffle that recalls the Grateful Dead at their most rootsy and irresistibly carefree.