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We've already posted a couple of times about The Shrouded Strangers following our discovery of Featherbed , a skuzzy slacker anthem that is nothing less than a glorious amalgam of surf guitars, krautrock rhythms and fuzzed up hillbilly stomp. It comes from new album  Lost Forever , a sputtering fever-dream of disembodied pop tunes and psych sing-alongs that comes out a mere 13 years after their debut - apparently they got 'sidetracked'. Mostly it features bewildered characters drifting through surreal, hallucinogenic story- songs, all tied together by a consistently damaged pop undercurrent - just the sort [...]

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