I’m glad to release this second album of Blackbird Raum on tape. Again utilizing the clawhammer banjo, accordion, singing saw and more. The scratchy five part harmonies make good on the bleak promise of their first album, more explicit of an incredibly dim view of world affairs. Subjects ranging from war to ecological collapse and all the bright space in between. Raum has grown up into something extremely paranoid and in haste. Sounds like Leonard Cohen and Nausea team up to start a bluegrass troupe or perhaps the Minutemen go French musette.
Tracklist:
1. Valkyrie Horsewhip Reel mp3
2. California/Fetid Adder’s Tongue mp3
3. Rubicon Drawn
4. Silent Spring
5. Witches
6. Greymare
7. Story from Strawmouth
8. Woodwose mp3
9. Shot Coplifting
10. Unregistered Firearm/Ravachol in Valhalla/Crom
11. A Rat in My Dream
12. Still Sick (years after the draft)
13. Honey in the Hair
14. Coal
15. Germinal
16. Everyone up to the Wall
Date: Juli 2009
Copies: 104
Releases:
- Purse-Seine CD (Quiver Distro)
- Swidden CD (Quiver Distro)
- Swidden Cassette (Erode Releases 012)
- Under The Starling Host CD (Quiver Distro)
- Under The Starling Host Cassette (Intellect 007)
