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Recliner Notes are written explorations into items that require further investigation: reclinernotes.com Contributor to Aquarium Drunkard and Asheville Stages

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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A snippet from the debut live performance of Monocot! Rosali on guitar and Jayson Gerycz on percussion
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Monocot tonight!
A description of the instrumental improvisational duo Monocot
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Monocot - the instrumental improvisational duo of guitarist Rosali and and drummer Jayson Gerycz - make their live debut tomorrow night at Asheville's AyurPrana Listening Room! In anticipation of the performance, I did a short interview with Rosali. ashevillestages.com/music/interv...
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Interview: Rosali Middleman (Monocot) — Asheville Stages
The Durham-based artist’s project with Jayson Gerycz makes its live debut on Oct. 1 at AyruPrana Listening Room.
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Come on! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGd9...
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The Lowdown | Season 2 Official Trailer | FX
YouTube video by FX Networks
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 29/09/2026
Future Sounds of Jazz Vol. 16 is both a forecast and a wormhole. Across two discs, Michael Reinboth and Michael Rütten move through jazz, dub, electronic music, improvisation, and psychedelia with the intuitive logic of a late-night DJ set. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/29/f...
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For @aquariumdrunkard.com, I reviewed the 16th edition of the Future Sounds of Jazz series, courtesy of Compost Records. The future of jazz is strong and promising. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/29/f...
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Future Sounds Of Jazz Vol. 16 - Aquarium Drunkard
Future Sounds of Jazz Vol. 16 is both a forecast and a wormhole. Across two discs, Michael Reinboth and Michael Rütten move through jazz, dub, electronic music, improvisation, and psychedelia with the...
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Bill Frisell | Four Bob Dylan songs - Paris Theater, NYC 9/2/2026 (complete solo electric mini-set)
YouTube video by roolin
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 27/09/2026
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David Lowery: “When my younger son was about 12 he decided he needed me to stop telling him stories about meeting members of the various bands he was listening to. ‘Dad, these stories you tell us, I'm sure were really important moments in your life, and you should be proud of them, but you know sometimes it takes the magic out of the music.’ Last week he's driving me to the airport and he decides to play me Jason Molina. I let him tell me all about Songs:Ohia, Magnolia Electric Company and The Sojourner Series. I didn't say a word. Now I'm roasting him here.”Jason Molina interview:

You also worked with David Lowery. How did you first meet David?
I HAVE BEEN A CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN FAN FOR YEARS AND YEARS. THAT WAS ONE BAND THAT STOOD OUT IN THE YEARS WHEN I WAS LISTENING TO A LOT OF HEAVY MUSIC, I THOUGHT BRINGING ALL OF THESE FOLK MUSIC ELEMENTS INTO THIS PUNK ROCK WORLD WAS BRILLIANT. I STILL COULD LISTEN TO BIG BLACK OR BLACK SABBATH AND NOT FEEL THAT CAMPER WAS OUT OF LINE. IT WAS ALL ABOUT GOOD SONGS, SO WHEN I HEARD THAT ALL OF THEIR GEAR HAD BEEN STOLEN I OFFERED UP WHAT I HAD TO THE BAND, THAT WAS HOW WE FIRST MET.

What was Lowery’s Sound of Music studio like? How was Lowery’s method different from Albini’s?
FOR THE SESSIONS WITH LOWERY, HE ACTUALLY WOULD PUT ON A GUITAR OR A BASS OR WHATEVER AND WORK OUT IDEAS ON THE FLOOR. THIS SESSION WAS MOSTLY A SITUATION LIKE "THE PYRAMID ELECTRIC COMPANY" WHERE I WOULD SLEEP IN THE STUDIO AND WRITE ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT AND MORNING AND TRY TO COME UP WITH IDEAS TO SHOW TO THE BAND. DAVID WAS VERY GOOD AT HELPING TO GET THE ARRANGEMENTS TO BE INTERESTING. ALSO ON THE SESSIONS' CONTROLS AND OTHER MUSICAL DUTIES WAS ALAN WEATHERHEAD. HE BROUGHT A BRILLIANT STYLE AND A LOT OF TASTE TO THE FINAL RECORD.
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Mateo @bozodeluxe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
K, replicant investigator from Blade Runner 2049, sitting on a stool in a white room with a black floor. K sits very stiffly, closed fists resting on thighs. He’s wearing a loose, dark green sweater and black pants. It should appear that, instead of the poetic baseline test text from this scene (CELLS!) you should assume the baseline test is the text of the quoted post: 

HEAR! 

IF YOU

Want a Cook,
Want a Situation,
Want a Salesman,
Want a Servant,
Want to Rent a Farm,
Want to Sell a Piano,
Want to Sell a Horse,
Want to Lend Money,
Want to Buy a House,
Want to Buy a Horse,
Want to Rent a House,
Want to Sell a Carriage,
Want a Boarding Place,
Want to Borrow Money,
Want to Sell Dry Goods,
Want to Sell Groceries,
Want to Sell Furniture,
Want to Sell Hardware,
Want to Sell Clothing,
Want to Sell Real Estate,
Want a Job of Carpentering,
Want a Job of Blacksmithing,
Want to Sell Millinery Goods,
Want to Sell a House and Lot,
Want to Find any one's Address,
Want to Find a Strayed Animal,
Want to Sell a Piece of Furniture,
Want to Buy a Second-hand Carriage,
Want to Sell Agricultural Implements,
Want to Find anything you have Lost,
Want to Advertise anything to advantage,
Want to Find an Owner for anything,
Want to Save Money,
Want to Make Money,
Want to Make a Name,
Want Anything at all,

Employ the Columns of

THE TRIBUNE.
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I attended last week's performance by LCD Soundsystem at Asheville's Hellbender and wrote about the show and reflected a bit on who they are as a band in 2026. ashevillestages.com/music/review...
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Review: LCD Soundsystem at Hellbender — Asheville Stages
The genre-blending dance band proved that they’re still full of surprises.
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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Happy 100th Birthday to John Coltrane, born when Marshall Allen was two years old.
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A short story about listening to John Coltrane during a walk as a small way to recognize his 100th birthday. reclinernotes.com/2026/09/23/a...
John Coltrane in 1963
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Don DeLillo, White Noise Perhaps as close as DeLillo got to Cormac McCarthy.
Don DeLillo, White Noise
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great album. Great review.
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"Dance Yrself Clean" by LCD Soundsystem, last night at Hellbender in Asheville. Review coming next week.
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Tyler Wilcox @tylerwilcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I put together a very sweet mix of instrumentals from @aquariumdrunkard.com's long-running Lagniappe Sessions. Covers of your favorites by your favorites!
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The Lagniappe Sessions :: Instrumentals (2016-2026) - Aquarium Drunkard
Aquarium Drunkard’s Lagniappe Sessions have been rolling along at a steady pace since 2011, bringing together a global lineup of artists to offer up cover versions of a few of their favorite tunes. Ov...
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here are Bitchin Bajas, lit only by the light of a lantern that looked like a giant jellyfish. Magnetic!
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dylyricus @dylyricus.com · 17/09/2026
People tell me it's a crime...
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
RIP Annie Dillard. Such as beautiful writer. I love this passage.
An excerpt from Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
These are the most out-there live versions of "Love to Burn" and "Like A Hurricane" I've ever heard.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse at 2003 Bonnaroo
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The '76 version of "Going, Going, Gone" is extraordinary. I wrote about it here: reclinernotes.com/2021/08/11/g...
Analysis of Dylan's 1976 version of "Going, Going, Gone"
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BLACK HILL TRANSMISSIONS @bhtransmissions.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
saved for later reading.
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Eggzacktly @eggzacktly.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A great (and telling) thing about the Big Ears festival - you can have 100 people who are over the moon psyched about the lineup, and all 100 have vastly different artists on their "must-see" lists.
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Clark @prokrustian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A post built expressly for me
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Michael Hunter @mikelark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is great. The Johnny Mercer archives are at the GSU library in Atlanta. Perhaps there are some handwritten lyrics? 🤔
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here's a new post by me on Robert Altman's adaptation of The Long Goodbye, exploring Elliott Gould's portrayal of Philip Marlowe, the movie's Scuzzy '70s feel, and a multiverse-style fantasy imagining the ideal artists and bands to cover the film's title song. reclinernotes.com/2026/09/13/t...
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The Long Goodbye: Altman and Gould’s Marlowe, the Scuzzy ‘70s, and an Imagined Soundtrack
Director Robert Altman called his 1973 adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled crime novel The Long Goodbye “a satire in melancholy.” The film stars goofily sincere Elliott Gould as detective …
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Lowdown - a recent show worthy of investigation. (Also, Deadwood).
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Here's a new post by me on Robert Altman's adaptation of The Long Goodbye, exploring Elliott Gould's portrayal of Philip Marlowe, the movie's Scuzzy '70s feel, and a multiverse-style fantasy imagining the ideal artists and bands to cover the film's title song. reclinernotes.com/2026/09/13/t...
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The Long Goodbye: Altman and Gould’s Marlowe, the Scuzzy ‘70s, and an Imagined Soundtrack
Director Robert Altman called his 1973 adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled crime novel The Long Goodbye “a satire in melancholy.” The film stars goofily sincere Elliott Gould as detective …
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thrilling/ disconcerting to hear a Hasil Adkins song featured in a Google phone ad. They also decided to use the "push in, push out" part of the song.
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I reviewed Talking, the debut album by the Baltimore band Crying Laughing, for @aquariumdrunkard.com.They sound like a combination of Horse Lords and David Byrne's music for The Knee Plays with the snap of a New Orleans second line. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Crying Laughing :: Talking - Aquarium Drunkard
Strange and turbulent times call for insistent new theme songs and rallying cries. On Talking, Baltimore’s Crying Laughing answer the call with necessary and emphatic instrumental anthems, driven by a...
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Being 13 years old when Licensed to Ill came out makes me patient zero for Beastie Boys music. Now Mike D has a solo album out at age 60 and it's damn fun. Here's my review for @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/11/m...
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Mike D :: Thank You - Aquarium Drunkard
With Mike D's Thank You, ascribed. to the appellation Mike D 5D, we finally have a solo debut from a Beastie Boy. That’s changed with Thank You, the first solo work from Mike D, ascribed to the appell...
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Hausu Mountain @hausumountain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🎭 Crying Laughing - 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 - reviewed in @aquariumdrunkard.com by @reclinernotes.bsky.social 🤝 "Strange and turbulent times call for insistent new theme songs and rallying cries. Talking, the debut album from CL, is filled with necessary and emphatic instrumental anthems." please subscribe at:
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Crying Laughing :: Talking - Aquarium Drunkard
Strange and turbulent times call for insistent new theme songs and rallying cries. On Talking, Baltimore’s Crying Laughing answer the call with necessary and emphatic instrumental anthems, driven by a...
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 11/09/2026
Mike D :: Thank You aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/11/m... Thank You, the first solo work from Mike D, ascribed to the appellation Mike D 5D.
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 11/09/2026
Baltimore’s Crying Laughing deliver emphatic instrumental anthems, driven by a twin alto sax attack and percussion that channels the snap and bounce of New Orleans rhythms. The result feels tightly interlocked, yet constantly in motion. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Crying Laughing :: Talking - Aquarium Drunkard
Strange and turbulent times call for insistent new theme songs and rallying cries. On Talking, Baltimore’s Crying Laughing answer the call with necessary and emphatic instrumental anthems, driven by a...
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Being 13 years old when Licensed to Ill came out makes me patient zero for Beastie Boys music. Now Mike D has a solo album out at age 60 and it's damn fun. Here's my review for @aquariumdrunkard.com: aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/11/m...
aquariumdrunkard.com
Mike D :: Thank You - Aquarium Drunkard
With Mike D's Thank You, ascribed. to the appellation Mike D 5D, we finally have a solo debut from a Beastie Boy. That’s changed with Thank You, the first solo work from Mike D, ascribed to the appell...
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Jiggety Jatters. The worst name. @jessefuchs.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I read the second sentence and had the sudden sensation of multiple laser sights appearing on my face from all directions (complimentary)
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I reviewed Talking, the debut album by the Baltimore band Crying Laughing, for @aquariumdrunkard.com.They sound like a combination of Horse Lords and David Byrne's music for The Knee Plays with the snap of a New Orleans second line. aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Crying Laughing :: Talking - Aquarium Drunkard
Strange and turbulent times call for insistent new theme songs and rallying cries. On Talking, Baltimore’s Crying Laughing answer the call with necessary and emphatic instrumental anthems, driven by a...
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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Burning Near the Highway @artark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Village Voice calls this photo “Cadillac Heaven Lubbock.” But, Terry Allen’s biographer confirms in an interview with @reclinernotes.bsky.social that this photo is “Precious objects are scattered/All over the ground.” It’s staged with a Cadillac Allen traded a drawing with the former title for.
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is what the internet was made for
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm a big fan of Jeff Tweedy's acoustic arrangement of "Tom Sawyer." Changes aren't permanent: jefftweedy.substack.com/p/tom-sawyer...
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Tom Sawyer (Rush cover)
Rush is fucking great
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
My favorite phase of the Dead is the early 70s roadhouse band from the rings of Saturn but I also absolutely love the unhinged primal Dead versions of "Viola Lee Blues." Can't get enough of those performances
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 02/09/2026
Transmissions :: Sun Ra: Door of the Cosmos aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/09/02/t...
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Hausu Mountain @hausumountain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🎺 new music today 🎺 Crying Laughing “Geese Six” The Baltimore quintet’s rhythm section kicks off with a dusty desert groove before torrents of synchronized sax & winding keyboard lines prod the band up into peaks of polyphonic bliss. Their debut album 𝙏𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 comes out on September 10th
cryinglaughing.bandcamp.com
Talking, by Crying Laughing
8 track album
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Thanks, I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And here’s a link to that podcast interview! We talk about three of my favorite things - books, movies, and books that got made into movies!
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Mike Vago Talks Books as Movies
Podcast Episode · Third Person Limited: A Books Podcast · September 1 · 54m
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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 28/08/2026
Black Duck with Elena Setién aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/28/b... The songs are loose-jointed and exploratory. A bass-line snakes around glittering piano runs, the guitar picks out blues-shaded licks and eerie vibrations of slide, and above it all, a woman’s voice winds...
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Onion got me again
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I think Elliott Gould's version of Philip Marlowe would've enjoyed the Time Fades Away tour.
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Listening to the new Lambchop album, I thought I heard a reference to diminutive speedy receiver Hollywood Brown, which would make sense for a song called "Afterburner." Turns out it was a color description: "Pasadena red / Hollywood brown." Too bad!
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I reviewed Isle Peaks, the new Bitchin Bajas EP, for @aquariumdrunkard.com, using a quote from Gerald Murnane's The Plains as a starting point. Any other obsessive fans of both the Bajas and The Plains out there? aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/08/26/b...
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Bitchin Bajas :: Isle Peaks - Aquarium Drunkard
On Isle Peaks, Bitchin Bajas continue their long-running musical exploration of the unknown, turning three outtakes from the Inland See sessions into an immersive journey through imagined landscapes. ...
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