Album Review: Monsters of Folk, "Monsters of Folk" (Shangri-La Music)

There's no escaping the aura of The Traveling Wilburys, the power act created by Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne in the the late 1980s. Monsters of Folk [ tickets ], an uber-group of M. Ward, My Morning Jacket's Jim James and two Bright Eyes vets (Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis), operate with a similar sound design: open and round with just enough of an echo to suggest the spaciousness has some barriers. Beyond the signature strumming of Oberst, there's a stylisti...

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