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]

Placer Found
Studio album by Early Day Miners
Released	April 2, 2001
Recorded	2000
Genre	Ambient, alternative rock, slowcore, post-rock, shoegaze
Length	49:22
Label	Western Vinyl
Producer	Early Day Miners
Early Day Miners chronology
Placer Found (2001) Let Us Garlands Bring (2002)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
Ox-Fanzine	[3]

Critical reception

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]

Track listing

1. "Placer Found" – 2:54
2. "East Berlin at Night" – 6:47
3. "Texas Cinema" – 5:11
4. "In These Hills" – 8:55
5. "Stanwix" – 7:32
6. "Longwall" – 5:48
7. "Desert Cantos" – 12:15

Personnel

• Dan Burton: vocals, guitar
• Joseph Brumley: guitar
• Rory Leitch: drums
• Kenny Chiders: bass
• Pete Skafish: bass

References