Rauelsson – Debutantes EP

contributor: Ed Thanhouser, Feb. 9th, 2010

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Rauelsson’s Debutantes EP is your early morning wake up album. It opens somewhere in that space between dreaming and waking, meandering along a gentle arc of gathering intensity. The five song free download was released earlier this month on Hush Records as a teaser to their forthcoming full-length studio album. Sung entirely in Spanish and featuring some of Portland’s preeminent recording talents, Debutantes is thoughtful and elegant. Lead singer Raúl Pastor Medall is relatively new to Portland, and his songs seem like a perfect complement to an otherwise dyed-in-the-wool Portland folk rock. Rauelsson doesn’t try to impress or overpower you. Instead, the band seems more interested in making space for the music to breathe so you can get lost inside it. Fortunately, they’ve got the songs to pull this off. (continue reading…)