Magic Tuber Stringband- "Tribute To The Angels"

"Tribute to the Angels," the latest from North Carolina's Magic Tuber Stringband, conjures the drowned ghost of a South Carolina town sacrificed to nuclear industry, Courtney Werner's fiddle rising like a sacred squall above Evan Morgan's coiled 12-string picking and Mike DeVito’s grounding upright bass thumps. It's the kind of mesmeric Appalachian elegy that makes the toxic coal ash and barren wasteland feel holy, a gorgeous and unsettling omen for Heavy Water, their second record with Thrill Jockey.