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You are walking. You see a half-crippled sparrow struggling to get back into the air. He grasps at a gust of wind, soars for a moment, but the ground immediately pulls him back. The sparrow sings songs that teeter between ecstasy and frustration. The tug of war continues for a few minutes and you are not quite sure whether you should giggle at the game or come to the aid of one of the opponents. Suddenly you realize that you have stopped walking and can not stop watching; the struggle, the success, the falls, and the flights of varying length and grace.

This is amalgam.

Amalgam’s music is not extremely shocking or exotic. At first you are not even sure if it is worth stopping to listen, but then you realize that you have stopped and are fascinated with an undemanding attraction to its honesty. Their appeal lies in an ability to translate the tensions we experience while living life into interesting music. They ping pong from quirky pop songs about the si...