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Catching Up With... Copeland

When Copeland was gearing up for the release of its fourth album (which dropped this week), You Are My Sunshine, the band decided to tackle the publicity angle Dark Knight-style. Frontman Aaron Marsh spearheaded the effort to pirate fan traffic in...  read more

Copeland: You Are My Sunshine

Partly cloudyFlorida trio Copeland continues to rise above pop-rock conventions by suffusing them with full-bodied arrangements and spiraling song structures. But You Are My Sunshine dissolves into its own cyclic consistency. As Aaron Marsh’s refined, feather-soft voice weaves through layers of multi-tracked harmonies and a thick gloss of reverbed guitars, plunked piano lines and ubiquitous string arrangements, the problem isn’t that the album is so pleasant, but that it’s almost polite. Sunshine does sparkle on occasion, like when successfully reeling in a cast hook (the “you gotta run right back to the start” refrain of “The Grey Man”) or building...  read more