The fourth full-length album for the Washington state-based artist Phil Elverum from the independent P.W. Elverum & Sun label gleems forth like a beautiful bad transmission, in keeping with its namesake and creepy artwork. Despite its obtuse, dark meanderings, this is a lucid, intelligent effort, destined to mine your subconscious murderer, dreamer and poet.

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Hailing from Tulsa, Oklahoma, twenty-something singer-songwriter Jonathan Van Risseghem summons daydreamy pop-melodicism that betrays influence from such diverse sources as Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine and more AOR fare like Train’s “Drops of Jupiter.”

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