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If you listen to enough music, it becomes easy
to pick out not only the differences between instruments, but
also the variation that occurs between vary types of the same
instrument. Likewise, you can also tell the changes in pedal
effects; i know for a fact PostLibyan is a big fan of the
Chorus. Anyway, this is just a roundabout way of saying that
in general I have a preference for the sound of a hollow body
guitar.
What makes it so different? To my ears, there is an inherent
echo and tremor that a pedal can't quite recreate. Notes
are usually a little muddy, without the crispness you can get
from your average solid body. Warm and full, the tone has few
edges. In the right hands, and with the right music, the instrument
just sings.
In short, there's something both haunting and
haunted about a well-played hollow body. And, at this year's
SXSW, we certainly saw a whole lot of them. In fact, as we
encountered band after band filled with hollow body guitars,
it became something of a running joke. And here are the best
looking of the bunch.
Healthy White Baby
Mazarin
Black Lipstick
The High Violets
Lab Partners
My Were They
Pacific
The Essex Green
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