Kevin Bronson on May 18th, 2010

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The languid, shimmering dream-pop on “Anything That Moves,” the third album from L.A. collective Snow & Voices, takes me back to the 1990s, when there was a special cubbyhole on my CD shelves for the likes of the Sundays, the Golden Palominos, the Innocence Mission and Mazzy Star. Singer Lauri Kranz isn’t in that league, but her collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Jebin Bruni has the same wizened-yet-vulnerable emotional core. Kranz and Bruni are joined on the album by an all-star cast of contributors, including Joey Waronker, Joshua Grange, Brian MacLeod, Cedric LeMoyne and a host of others with musical resumes that, if listed, would make this an even longer blog item. Suffice to say “Anything That Moves” is a delicate flower, meticulously nurtured.

||| Download: “Maybe Finland”

||| Live: Snow & Voices perform Saturday, May 29, at the Hotel Cafe.