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Singing Bones

by The Handsome Family

On their most adventurous album yet & their best since 1998's "Through the Trees", Brett & Rennie Sparks have outdone themselves. Songs about haunted Wal-Marts, lovers who chase the fire in streetlights, very VERY deep holes & the shadows that whisper inside of modern office building all give full voice to an eerily hopeful edge that has seeped into their music over the last year or so. A surprisingly low body count album, or as low as we're likely to get, is meant to rip a tear in the veil between this world & the next. Musically, Brett's weeks and months in their home studio show though. He learned pedal steel & musical saw & his compositions are embellished w/trumpet, mandolin, bowed bass & violin from local Albuquerque musicians. While "Twilight" was almost universally hailed from Uncut, Mojo, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Greil Marcus & Robert Christgau, critics & listeners will be purely ecstatic over "Singing Bones"!