Boduf Songs is the

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electro-acoustic musician Mat Sweet. Sweet first began recording as Boduf Songs in 2004, using

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in addition to recordings he made at home. He self-released these as a CD-R and Kranky Records reissued the album in 2005.Boduf Songs
at

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Three further albums followed on Kranky. In 2013 he moved to

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for his fifth full-length; a sixth, on Flenser Records, followed in 2015.

Discography

*''Boduf Songs'' ( Kranky Records, 2005) *''Lion Devours the Sun'' ( Kranky Records, 2006) *''How Shadows Chase the Balance'' ( Kranky Records, 2008) *''This Alone Above All Else in Spite of Everything'' ( Kranky Records, 2010) *''Burnt Up on Re-Entry'' (

, 2013) *''Stench of Exist'' ( Flenser Records, 2015) *''Abyss Versions'' (Orindal Records, 2019)

References

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