The American Analog Set

American Analog Set combine a warm hum of vintage keyboards with hushed, emotionally restrained vocals, sparse guitars, and a compact rhythm section to create music that's inspired by sounds of the past, such as '70s German rock and late-'80s American Underground, while sounding futuristic in a home-cooked way. In their early days, they synced the guitars with the keys in such a way that albums like 1996's The Fun of Watching Fireworks were lumped in with the space rock movement. They later shifted to a more song-based, guitar-forward approach (on 2003's Promise of Love, for e...