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Polvo Returns With All the Answers on 'In Prism'new

If you only ever hear one Polvo song, make it eight-minute In Prism centerpiece "Lucia." Haunting and elegant at the start, it takes a hair-pin tempo turn around the 2:20 mark and -- voilà -- it's damn near the best foot-to-the-pedal drive song ever.
Las Vegas Weekly  |  Spencer Patterson  |  09-10-2009  |  Reviews

Of Montreal's Latest Continues to Blur Reality and Fictionnew

On Skeletal Lamping, it sounds as if Kevin Barnes' reality/fiction line has blurred so much, he actually believes he has become the character he created.
Las Vegas Weekly  |  Spencer Patterson  |  10-24-2008  |  Reviews

'Lie Down in the Light' is Will Oldham's Most Countrified Disc Yetnew

There's a subtle, laid-back twang throughout, arriving via fiddle, banjo, pedal-steel guitar, organ, clarinet (?!) and, above all, the old-world voice of Ashley Webber, who proves a better singing partner for Oldham than the more heralded Dawn McCarthy did on 2006's The Letting Go.
Las Vegas Weekly  |  Spencer Patterson  |  06-27-2008  |  Reviews

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