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Soulsavers — It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land Buy it at Amazon

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Blues, country, and gospel samples mixed with downtempo electronica? Yessir. But I wouldn’t have thought that it would come also packaged with the likes of Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age, Isobel Campbell) on vocals. Lanegan’s deep patented voice thunders across like a new twist on Johnny Cash (see “Kingdom of Rain”). While their debut was a bit more like DJ Shadow, this one does a Texas two-step away from it, though when they do glimpse back towards that sound it’s more menacing, darker, and heavier such as on the track “Paper Money” and the gorgeous instrumental “Ask the Dusk”. You won’t find many like-minded albums this year, and I dare say you won’t find many better either.

- J-Sin

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