Bloodshot Records discovers Athens OH and Southeast Engine

Southeast Engine is roots and Americana by way of Athens - but not Georgia. For fans of Brothers bands like Avett and Felice (though not Pernice). I likes, so do a lot of other folks:

All Music: ★★★★ “Canary is a true find from a band that’s quietly created one of the most powerful albums of the year.”
Paste Magazine: 8.4 “Especially when so many groups are mutating old-time American music into pedestrian pop, Southeast Engine distinguish themselves by gently updating these traditions for the 21st century.”
Pitchfork: 7.3 “its attention to detail and local focus make for a singular achievement.”
Onion AV Club: B+ “Part wilderness excursion, part history lesson and part revival meeting.”
Pop Matters: 8/10 “an album where Southeast Engine brought everything together, never lost control, and never backed off of a hard vision.”
NPR – World Cafe: Next: “a historical yet entirely contemporary work.”
No Depression: “sidesteps literary pretension, and is so dense with genuine sentiment and detailed prose throughout the set that it begs for another spin each time it ends.”
KEXP (Seattle): ”remarkable concept album.”
NPR: ”It’s one of the best roots-rock albums of 2011 so far.”