Blog: Citizen Dick

The things that most folks are going to hone in on when listening to (or commenting on if you're in the 40% of the population that has a music blog) Hermit Thrushes' sophomore release (out June 23 on Joyful Noise) are the weirder bits: the dissonance, sharply angular guitar sounds, odd stops and starts, occasional free jazz solo, impressionistic and scattershot lyrical content, wildly disorganized and chaotic acoustic soundscapes and, perhaps most strikingly, the ten seconds of a field recording of cats mewling. All of that stuff is in here and I don't think you'll hear anyone denying that this [...]

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