Elf Power Artificial Countrysides (CLEAR PURPLE VINYL) 10/06/1998

Elf Power Artificial Countrysides (CLEAR PURPLE VINYL) 10/06/1998Artificial Countrysides is Athens, Ga based Elf Power's 14th album and first for Yep Roc Records. The band expand their sound on this record to glorious effect, adding marimba, harpsichord, synth bass, distorted drum machine loops, and mellotron to their time tested mix of fuzz guitars, moog keyboards, pummeling drums, and layered acoustic guitars, achieving a satisfying and unique synthesis of traditional and futuristic sounds. Lyrically the album

mastering and editing (open-back)

Logan Sama

The songs sung on Best Troubador are pulled from all over - from Haggard's third album in 1967 through to his 47th in 2011 - but this is no simple hits compilation

expect reality to be reinvented anew

" While studying at the University of Virginia

Pre-Tower label live album documenting the Standells in an unrecognizably clean-cut night club incarnation

blending the spiritual fervor of gospel and the danceable grooves of soul and—dare we say it

Harriet Brown) 8

On the Elephant 6-affiliated band's 4th studio album

Rhino Reserve Series

in rehearsal rooms or in home studios

The naked-yet-layered sound that emerged is like nothing he or Winterpills has ever done before