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Anders & Kendall


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Wild Chorus, the new collaborative album from songwriters Anders Parker and Kendall Meade, has the easy, comfortable feel of longtime friendship. Parker, who played in bands like Varnaline before embarking on a highlight-studded but largely overlooked solo career, has the warm, slightly gruff presence of a cool college professor. Meade, the frontwoman for indie-pop group Mascott and a onetime member of Sparklehorse, exudes the sort of natural sweetness that reminds you how rare that sort of thing actually is. (Zooey Deschanel, step off.) Together, they are a sort of She & Him for the rest of us: tunes like “Sleepwalking” are wistful and romantic but far from naive. Instead, they ache with hard-won truth.

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