New Castanets - "Worn From The Fight (With Fireworks)" (Stereogum Premiere)

Like much of his work, Ray Raposa's eerie batch of songs on the Rafter Roberts-produced Texas Rose, The Thaw, And The Beasts comes with a lonesome, swampy feel: Like everything was recorded in the deep woods at night and very much alone. Which is why the upfront percussive glitches (and cinders) of "Worn From The Fight (With Fireworks)" offer such a curve ball, especially after a couple of especially spare, quiet, and cavernous tracks. Besides that element, though, Raposa remains echoed, his ins...

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