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DRAGON NEW WARM MOUNTAIN I BELIEVE IN YOU, by Big Thief

The six singles released in advance of this fifth outing by New York’s Big Thief hinted at the breadth on this 20-song double album, which, at a push, you’d describe as Americana-cum-experimental folk.

The celestial and philosophical was Band-like country music with was slippery folk-rock.

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