Pitchfork

With a name that sounds like some long-lost Elephant 6 band, the Ginger Envelope sure enough hail from Athens, where they share members with local acts Dark Meat and Venice Is Sinking. However, they sound nothing like that psychedelic swirl of bands a decade ago; their debut, Edible Orchids, is full of understated, rainy-day songs like "Drift". In a hangdog voice, Patrick Carey sings about drifting out of a relationship-- "Let me be your runaway, leave the phone alone, and let the memory decay"-- while the bands backs him with understated accompaniment and sways gently to Matt Stoessel's pedal steel, which breezes pensively through the song. "Drift" opens up nicely in the instrumental passages, where Steve Miller's bass walks across the footbridge, reinforcing the song's subtle drift.

MP3:> Ginger Envelope: "Drift"
[from Edible Orchids; out now on One Percent Press]