Finnish sibling duo Samu and Ville Kuukka, AKA The Gentleman Losers, create atmospheric, instrumental film noir soundtracks for your head, or as they put it, "music from a past that hasn't happened yet." Heavily reverbed guitar lines mesh with brushed percussion and a crystallized ambient electronica coating for a sound that one critic described as the "fine line between twilight beauty and dusky threat." New album Dustland, out July 7, follows up the brothers' eponymous 2006 debut with more gauzy, drifting tracks that seem the ideal aural backdrop to a bleary-eyed, soul-searching sunrise serenade, music that revels in the spaces between the notes. Think some inspired Deadish noodling blended with Ry Cooder's Paris, Texas soundtrack topped with a sweet dollop of Badalamenti "Twin Peaks" mood shadows. Then listen. Then think again.

From their bio: "The Gentleman Losers' music has been called post-rock, alt-country, folktronica and ambient americana. It's been described as mesmerizing, cinematic, soothing, and ominous. It has been called music from a land inhabited by Kerouac's characters. It's a land of long forgotten crooners on crackly old 78s. Tapes with no name, found in a basement. A Telefunken mixer from the 1950s. Midnight recording sessions in a haunted house. The distant din of the city. The silence of the woods. Freight trains in the horizon. Abandoned towns on the edge of the desert. Fading photographs of lives past. Dead butterflies fluttering in the setting sun. A darkness approaching. An archipelago of insomnia." We know this for certain: you won't hear anything quite like it this year. Recommended.

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Dustland "video teaser"