| Placer Found | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Early Day Miners |
| Cover: | Placer Found (Early Day Miners album) cover art.jpg |
| Released: | April 2, 2001 |
| Recorded: | 2000 |
| Genre: | Ambient, alternative rock, slowcore, post-rock, shoegaze |
| Length: | 49:22 |
| Label: | Western Vinyl |
| Producer: | Early Day Miners |
| Next Title: | Let Us Garlands Bring |
| Next Year: | 2002 |
Placer Found is the first full-length recording by the American band Early Day Miners, released on Western Vinyl in 2000.[1] [2] It was reissued by Secretly Canadian in 2020.[3]
AllMusic called Placer Found "a fragile album of moody textures and minimalist, slow rock sound explorations." 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."[4] 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."[5]
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."[3] Reviewing the reissue, Spin called the album "an essential catalyst for the new directions that Midwestern indie rock would take in the 21st century."[6]