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Album Retrospective: Truly's 'Twilight Curtains' (2000)

Album Retrospective: Truly's 'Twilight Curtains' (2000)

Once or twice a year, the Spanish label Bang! Records delivers some extraordinary news. While I am forever grateful for Truly's Fast Stories From Kid Coma and Feeling You Up reissues, Bang! Records has done a great job reissuing several obscure records from Pacific Northwest bands such as

Album Retrospective: 25 Years of Stone Gossard's 'Bayleaf'

Album Retrospective: 25 Years of Stone Gossard's 'Bayleaf'

"Bayleaf represents the idea/concept of a child who doesn't understand why there's a hard old leaf in his pasta sauce, and only later comes to understand how that leaf imparts a special flavor/seasoning. Enough metaphors." The press sheet for Bayleaf is an

Album Retrospective: 'Regional Zeal, Mouth Music From Olympia, Washington'

Album Retrospective: 'Regional Zeal, Mouth Music From Olympia, Washington'

A few weeks back, I finally became the proud owner of an album I had been searching for for a while: Regional Zeal, Mouth Music From Olympia, Washington. Given that I am an avid collector of PNW music and, at the same time, have a fondness for all experimental music,