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Family Fires; Sons and Daughters' Sonic Stampede

SONS AND DAUGHTERS blend gothic country and pulsing dance music, like bold groove-craving cowpokes installing a disco ball in a rustic ranch. Rhythmic stampedes interrupt high-lonesome guitar lines; boot-heel clicks provide stark percussion during almost a cappella harmonies; and whistles, handclaps, and finger snaps create a campfire symphony. The alternating male/female vocals and intertwined urban and rural sensibilities recall X, while the incongruous relationship between the often-bleak lyrics and the irrepressible hooks echoes the Smiths and the Velvet Underground.

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