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‘The Meteors Are Coming’ (LP, Little Paradise Records) Zips in on an express banjo instrumental thrum, giving way to Band-like organ and accordion bounce in track two, wherein we’re introduced to Alex Studer’s dreaming gas station attendant voice, a bruised romantic intoning “I’ll watch the leaves come off the trees, I’ll wish the wind would let them be.” This is desert plains music, all long roads and rails to the horizon, oft-hard guitar adding riven steel to the country mix. ‘Shooting Gold’’s sticky fingered Stones balladry affords a rare break from songs urgently whipping along, pistons pumping, like flashing blue lights are gaining in the rearview mirror. Thrillingly distinct, brilliantly produced, this is a masterful debut. (Julian Owen)
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