AUGIE MARCH - Strange Bird 2LP metal cold drum machines

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the album’s five pieces move with an alluring narcolepsy

The smell of bleach in the bathroom leads to “Potter’s Daughter” with an invitation to relax and go “swimming in tampons” but in the last minute Rod Meyer’s and Rob Enbom’s scraping guitars peel back the skull again

but she manages to pull off this combination of both high energy instrumentation and low energy voice delivery

AUGIE MARCH - Strange Bird 2LP metal cold drum machinesA more concise record than the epic 'Sunset Studies', 'Strange Bird' (2002) still manages to cover more sonic terrain. It veers from the sweet, building harmony of 'The Vineyard', through the Wild West gallop of 'This Train', the heavy 'Song in the Key of Chance' and muted melancholy of 'O Mi Sol Li Lon' to the plaintive balladry of 'The Night is A Blackbird', and that's all in the first half hour! Like its predecessor, 'Strange Bird' includes two