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  • Summary: This is the first studio album in six years from the Seattle rock band led by Chris Eckman and Carla Torgerson.
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  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
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  1. 80
    The backdrops feature dark sheets of strings and organ, the occasional lonely trumpet, and lumpy, superstitious drums driving the menacing Western mythos to its doom: not a forgiving place, but an engrossing one.
  2. Feb 1, 2012
    80
    It's Bowles's reflections on the silence of the desert, the way its stillness rearranges your molecular structure, that resonates with Travels In The Dustland.
  3. Feb 1, 2012
    80
    It's all very definitely Walkabouts in its sound -- with some glorious lyrics from Chris Eckman
  4. Q Magazine
    Feb 10, 2012
    60
    Conjures up a haunting, almost mythical American landscape of lost highways and endless skies. [Dec 2011, p.137]