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Our Ancient Friends

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Our Ancient Friends
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Length
11 tracks, 51:09
Release Date
18 April 2009
Walton, guitar, and Marting, bass, share vocal and songwriting duties on the 11 track album. Walton’s high pitched vocals match the playfulness of Daniel Smith’s voice with the delivery of Grizzly Bear’s Edward Droste. Marting contrasts with deeper, fragile vocals, highlighted in tracks such as "Stars on Patrol" and "Hydroelectric Power Commission: Fear Holds Us Back". All three students at the University of Missouri, the band mates were separated just a few months after their formation. Marting headed off to study the flora and fauna in Australia and New Zealand… read more
Walton, guitar, and Marting, bass, share vocal and songwriting duties on the 11 track album. Walton’s high pitched vocals match the playfulness of Da… read more
Walton, guitar, and Marting, bass, share vocal and songwriting duties on the 11 track album. Walton’s high pitched vocals match the playfulness of Daniel Smith’s voice with the delivery … read more

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Track number Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options Duration Listeners
1 Lord Who Built This House
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 4:36 1,413 listeners
2 Pleistocene
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 6:06 1,231 listeners
3 Stars On Patrol
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 3:11 1,191 listeners
4 Good Morning Holocene
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 3:37 1,173 listeners
5 Valley of Some Sort
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6 Eardrums Burst
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 4:46 1,005 listeners
7 Hydroelectric Power Commission: Fear Holds Us Back
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8 Thylacine
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 5:31 952 listeners
9 Le 'Ospital
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10 Interloper
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11 Nights and Lights
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At least four (4) bands use the name Ptarmigan. 1. Ptarmigan is a modern band of the powerfolk ambiopop genre formed in Columbia, Missouri in 2007. Evan Walton, Peter Marting, and Ted Carstensen create intricate, powerful explosions from simple folk roots and catchy melodies over levels of ambiance. Ptarmigan returns with their sophomore release, “The Forest Darling”, the follow-up to 2009’s “Our Ancient Friends”. Where Ptarmigan used to rely on high/low tempo changes to create tension before unleashing an explosion of pop melodies, they’ve evolved to focusing more on harmonizing t… read more
At least four (4) bands use the name Ptarmigan. 1. Ptarmigan is a modern band of the powerfolk ambiopop genre formed in Columbia, Missouri in 2007. Evan Walton, Peter Marting, and Ted Cars… read more
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