Alexander "Skip" Spence - Oar LP xxfeatured successive pivotal years have always

successive pivotal years have always had an artificial aspect while at the same time they have revealed the state of an art that would define a new aesthetic

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It’s noisier and more unkempt than the Small Wonder single release)

consider "System I" not only the righteous third official full-length album from the band

--Douglas Wolk

Alexander "Skip" Spence - Oar LP xxfeatured successive pivotal years have alwaysFar from just another acid casualty cult folk country classic, I feel like Skip Spences Oar serves as a template for the kind of folk adjacent experimentation that continues to take place today in acts like Troth or Nein Rodere. Released in 1969, Spence seemed to tap into the same vein of basement folk that Dylan was toying with in upstate NY, the kind of murky, from another time return to standards and shellac disc era obscurity. But where other