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Got a request for more Badgerlore, so here's their final full-length. At this point, the former duo had ballooned to a six-member quasi-supergroup encompassing the original two plus Liz Harris of Grouper, Tom Carter of Charalambides, and more. All things considered, We Are All Hopeful Farmers... really isn't all that different from the Badgerlore that had come before -- skeletal guitar figures, shimmering drones, and a spectral vocal here and there -- but it does feel like the most fully realized version of the project's vision.

Track listing:

1. Furbearer

2. Goodnight, Sweet Rabbits

3. The Crops That You Tend

4. Whichever

5. We Are All Hopeful Farmers

6. Mountain Wine

7. Snowballs for Reuven

8. Grow Your Hair

9. Duet

10. When I Look at Your Face, I See Timothy

Find the ones you hate and hold them tight

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Saturday, May 7, 2016

Badgerlore - Of Things Too Sorrowful to Be Reminded Of, and Things Too Beautiful to Possess (2003)

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Six Organs of Admittance - RTZ (2009)

Abstract, drugged-out, extremely deconstructed psych-folk from a duo consisting of Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire) and Rob Fisk (Common Eider, King Eider.) Quite similar to the great Charalambides, a member of whom, along with Liz Harris (Grouper) would eventually join Badgerlore. Pretty much only makes sense late at night, and under the influence of psychedelics or sedatives.

Track listing:
1. Prayer
2. Culling the Fire Lions
3. Find a Place
4. A Girl's Mouth in Winter
5. Sewing Your Hands Shut
6. I Remember Your Glass
7. The Ruiner
8. Listen, Loved Ones

Your discomfort, my happiness

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