STRAPPING FIELDHANDS - "Alluvium Trinkets" LPStrapping Fieldhands Alluvium Trinkets LP (Omphalos, 2018) "Newly minted LP from Philadelphia's long tenured, unclassifiable STRAPPING FIELDHANDS. Recorded during the same session that produced the "Impossible To Say" single on Richie Records some years back, Alluvium Trinkets is the result of the Fieldhands being holed up deep underground on the south side of town for the cold months, stocked with resurrected instruments, archaic recording gear,

Im Land der Ameisen evokes the spirit if not the sound of White Rabbit

Footins display wide possibilities while maintaining their primary focus on creating a kind of avant garde American roots music with the brash complexity of Yo La Tengo and the stately depth of Wilco

it is somewhat remarkably laid-back

I can't remember with 100% certainty where I bought a copy when it first came out

Bassae - (Untitled) 12" (Few Crackles

The Fall is subjected to this lazy word often

and perceiving its changes or lack thereof

Poem (For Voice & Tape)

stirred with witchy long-form free-rock/psychedelia

The book also features community leaders

2018 reissue w/ slightly different artwork

it should surprise you not an iota that Orcutt’s style is rooted as much in the fractal melodies of Trane and Taylor as it is in Delta syrup or Tin Pan Alley glitz