When writing up Castanets' percussive curve ball "Worn From The Fight (With Fireworks)," I mentioned Ray Raposa's eerie Rafter Roberts-produced Texas Rose, The Thaw, And The Beasts has an I'm-so-lonesome-I-could-cry feel, like it was all put to tape in the mossy woods somewhere, giving his compositions "as much space as an empty forest allows." Because I'm psychic, the quietly dramatic Jeff Stern-directed video for "Hearts" takes place amid trees, soil, and weeds. Though this forest's not emp...
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When writing up Castanets' percussive curve ball "Worn From The Fight (With Fireworks)," I mentioned Ray Raposa's eerie Rafter Roberts-produced Texas Rose, The Thaw, A... more info