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Like Bill Callahan or Will Oldham, Ray Raposa finds a secret spot in the fabric of American music that allows tradition's loose threads to bind with a very present and personal point of view. This fifth release, on the heels of last year's stark City of Refuge, combines dusty acoustic blues with dusty cybernetic blues in the Castanets' now-familiar idiom. Also like Callahan and Oldham, a twisted helix of God and sex spirals around the vertex of life and death, and trouble, of course. Raposa's old man intonations open in a triptych of bone-dry folk odes elevated by gospel organ...
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