Vetiver : To Find Me Gone

  Alisa Rose - Violin
  Andy Cabic - Bass, Guitar, Vocals
  Brad Laner - Guitar
  Devendra Banhart - Guitar, Vocals
  Dina Maccabee - Violin, Viola
  Gary Held - Harmonium
  Guy Blakeslee - Percussion
  Irene Sazer - Violin
  Jessica Ivry - Cello
  Kevin Barker - Guitar, Ukulele
  Nathan D. Shineywater - Guitar, Vocals
  Noah Georgeson - Guitar
  Otto Hauser - Percussion, Drums, Keyboards
  Rachael Hughes - Keyboards, Vocals
  Thom Monahan - Percussion

With his second album, Vetiver mainstay Andy Cabic continues to make low-key folk-rock with a mildly psychedelic tinge that will appeal to fans of his friend Devendra Banhart. While Cabic's songs are at their heart placid reflective works, they're given some dreamy, at times trance-like ambience with the layering of sighing backup vocals, subliminal background droning elements, and campfire-in-the-woods percussion. At times he sounds like Marc Bolan in his early days (especially on the closing track, 'Down at El Rio' ), though without an edge that's as eccentric or grating. The country-rockish shuffle of 'Won't Be Me' is about as high-energy as the album gets. Occasionally it moves into tunes with the yearning, reflective quality of numerous celebrated folk-rock singer/songwriters of the late '60s and early '70s, though the material generally has a somewhat spacier, more ambient quality than what you would have heard on such vintage releases. It makes for pleasant if undemanding listening, and if it's anachronistic, it's not self-consciously so. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

2006 sophomore album by Andy Cabic's ever-evolving band Cabic, a member of Devendra Banhart's band, has expanded Vetiver into a full-on singer-songwriter project, aided and abetted by some of the best players in the extended family of which Cabic finds himself a member. Musically, there's a dreamy Topanga Canyon vibe on select songs (maybe that's the pedal steel calling on 'No One Word'), and there's also plenty of crunchy candy for those who have appreciated Cabic's recent nod toward the magic of '70s-era Fleetwood Mac. To Find Me Gone is Andy Cabic's own original statement, one that many will consider as one of the finest albums of 2006. 11 tracks. Fatcat.