The second album by Ken Layne and the Corvids is a weird voyage across the American West, from the Gold Rush to the impending stucco apocalypse.
From spooky acoustic folk to thrashing country-rock, "Transcontinental" is a dark and beautiful tale.
"A proper hoot ... what Cormac McCarthy would write if he had a sense of humor to go with his sense of dread, a sort of 'Blood Meridian' meets Butch & Sundance. The album's big thematic interests are the 19th century opening of the West, a love for wild and desolate places, and a recurring nervous thread of incipient violence." -- A Fool in the Forest
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