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This is an odd bit of work, nowhere on the CD does it list the names of any performers or songwriters. Heck, I didn't even know that the album was titled "Thin & Pale" until I looked it up on the label's website.
Secrets and mystery aside this is a very good debut. The Mountain Apple Epidemic mix dirge-y, driving rock with haunted, lost and lonesome elements that can only be called country... yet the songs never fall into the banality known as "country rock". It's as if the artist(s) deconstructed both genres and then rebuilt them from the ground up, like "alt country" from a different dimension.
The closest musical cousin this band has is probably Woven Hand, but the vocals do sound strikingly similar to lost insurgent country greats Bill Campbell and the Bitter Suite.
The Mountain Apple Epidemic:
http://www.myspace.com/mountainappleepidemic
Devi's Ruin:
http://www.devilsruinrecords.com/
http://rodentiamusic.mybisi.com/product/154701/Thin-Pale--The-Mountain-Apple-Epidemic_749921.html
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