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<br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <strong>Skip Spence<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/13\/9140\/\"><strong>13<sup>th<\/sup> Floor Elevators<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/13\/the-black-angels-a-big-scoop-of-psychedelic-ice-cream\/\">Black Angels<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just when you think the guitar-and-drums-duo format is totally played out, along comes Montr\u00e9al-based <strong>Milk Lines<\/strong>. Rather than slammin’, unsubtle roots rock \u2013 the typical product of such duos \u2013 this pair makes music that sounds like a cross between freak-folk of the late 60s and modern tribal psych of The Black Angels. Imagine if <strong>Gram Parsons<\/strong> were backed by <strong>Pearls Before Swine<\/strong> and time-transported to the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. On their debut album, Milk Lines craft hypnotic, relatively simple melodies and deliver them with determined intensity layered with nuance. The careening \u201cSuicide Note\u201d takes a countrified <strong>Byrds<\/strong> approach and pushes ahead, full throttle. On \u201cPurgatory,\u201d they combine atonal guitar skronk, a 60s pop melody, and <strong>Emily Frances Bitze<\/strong>‘s gentle vocal work; the latter suggests <strong>Cowboy Junkies<\/strong> after a few espressos. The lysergic \u201cAnother Breed\u201d melds spaghetti western textures to a psychedelic drone. This duo bears watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Skip Spence, 13th Floor Elevators, Black Angels Just when you think the guitar-and-drums-duo format is totally played out, along comes Montr\u00e9al-based Milk Lines. Rather than slammin’, unsubtle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30,49,57,62,65],"tags":[2585],"class_list":["post-9911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alt-country","category-folk","category-new-release","category-psych","category-rawk","category-review","tag-milk-lines","cat-4-id","cat-30-id","cat-49-id","cat-57-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10126,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9911\/revisions\/10126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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