| Placer Found | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | April 2, 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Ambient, alternative rock, slowcore, post-rock, shoegaze | |||
| Length | 49:22 | |||
| Label | Western Vinyl | |||
| Producer | Early Day Miners | |||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
| Ox-Fanzine |  [3] |
Placer Found is the first full-length recording by the American band Early Day Miners, released on Western Vinyl in 2000. [4] [5] It was reissued by Secretly Canadian in 2020. [6]
AllMusic called Placer Found "a fragile album of moody textures and minimalist, slow rock sound explorations." [1] Exclaim! wrote: "Like a two-headed beast that could be called Calexi-Low, these Miners are more interested in open spaces than the depths; no one could mistake this for music made by a big city band." [7] The Indianapolis Star deemed the album "a liquid dream of a record," writing that "the playing, never agitated or grandiose, challenges many definitions of rock guitar." [8]
Paste described the album as "glassy guitar tones, sedate tempos and a mood that took the slowcore template of Codeine and Low and adapted it for the emo generation." [6] Reviewing the reissue, Spin called the album "an essential catalyst for the new directions that Midwestern indie rock would take in the 21st century." [9]
