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in the suburbs in the dead of night -- is reflected in the simple

’ it’s hard to tell whether one’s listening to an artifact from 1971 or one of the myriad collectives that rose from the ashes of freak-folk over 2009 … Pastor Barrett’s definitely a master composer who deserves wider recognition and study

which makes for a slightly more raw sound (the credits boast that Kim Shattuck recorded all of her vocals on her own at home)

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