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"GLMS uses a bounty of genres -- including classical, folk, Celtic and rock `n` roll -- to take listeners to very specific places in time and frames of mind. While the music is full of jangly joviality, balladeering and a magnificent command of their instruments, it`s not enough for GLMS to simply pen a song -- they offer complete story-per-song narratives. Now there`s something that`s rarely done, much less done well....Compass Rose Bouquet -- the band`s second album -- is a 12-track slowburn of lasting imprints lifted directly from a Midwesterner`s psyche. The lyrics move effortlessly in a way that recalls even Walt Whitman, and musically, the intricate song structures are colored by accordions, mandolins, violins, cellos, banjos, Wurlitzers and cornets; making the guitar often secondary. And when examining rites of passage..." -- Eve Doster, metrotimes.com
