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Group Members: Terminal 4, Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio, Michael Krassner, Glenn Kotche, Mats Gustafsson & Fred Lonberg-Holm
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The Lofty Pillars is a folk-pop project of Chicagoans Wil Hendricks and Michael Krassner. Krassner is noted as the Windy City studio man who orchestrated the Boxhead Ensemble, a post-rock all star ensemble created for the Dutch Harbor soundtrack. The Pillars features more traditional songwriting whereas the soundtrack used open, painfully sparse instrumentation to impart a sense of longing. When We Were Here is an 11-song romp through his subtle, piano driven folk melancholy that sounds vaguely like batch of weather-beaten Bowie ballads. That said, the album has beautifully pedal steel and orchestration that recalls the diverse but equally wide-eyed work of Nick Drake, the Dirty Three, and even Journey.
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The Lofty Pillars is an American slowcore band from Chicago. The band is composed of Wil Hendricks, Michael Krassner; Krassner is known as the founder of the Boxhead Ensemble. The Lofty Pillars have released two studio albums.
The Lofty Pillars released their first album When We Were Lost in 2000, although it never came to critical or commercial success. Their second album, Amsterdam was well received by some critics like Piero Scaruffi who gave it an 8/10. As of April 2009, only eight albums have received at least 8/10 from Scaruffi since the year 2000.
