I tweeted, while listening to this album, that the new Blitzen Trapper sounds like Dr. Dog, which is pretty much what their last album sounded like. I suppose it's almost like arguing semantics: Does Blizten Trapper sound like Dr. Dog with prog rock influences, or does Dr. Dog sound like a kind of crappy Blitzen Trapper?

In either case, both bands usually leave me feeling kind of underwhelmed, but Blitzen Trapper has seemed to take a cue from how well awesome the titular track off Furr was and continued the trend of one of those songs per record.

This is that song. The lyrics aren't as good as Furr, but they're still emotional and they still tell a story in abstract. The mix on this song is so clean, whoever recorded and mixed the harmonica bits is a genius, because that is the most perfect harmonica sound for this specific song that I could ever imagine. It's just lovely.

But, yes, the rest of the album still sounds like the same ol' Blitzen Trapper so if you're like me, and maybe you just don't get them, then your mileage may vary. Me, myself, I'll just stick with this song. There isn't even a Sleepy Time In The Western World prog-folk epic. If I had to choose, if the band showed up at my door and asked me, I'd vote that they'd go in the direction of prog-folk more often. Even this song can kind of qualify, it's got near-Lamb style lyrics.