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Review: Cosmik Debris
Name: Violet
Label: Wine & Vinyl Records
Title: We Both Know It's Out There

This one came out of left field, a totally unexpected surprise hidden in a stack of dull CD's on my desk one afternoon. The voice of Meredith Minogue nearly broke my haert immediatly. So much emotion, pain, despair, resignation, eventual joy, all recorded in a mist of reverb that only enhances the ethereal quality she naturally possesses. Jim Barry's plays nearly every instrument ( might even be every), and they're not all standard issue, as there is a whirlwind of harmonmicas, finger cymbals, glockenspiel, lap steel, mandolines, E-Bow, and even a Tibetan bell. Exotic instruments for an exotic voice. Nothing else would have done. Sometimes when we're narrowing down ourl ists for our top five picks of the year an album will be there by default, simply because we constanly find time in our schedules to listen to it long aftre we've reviewed it and (supposedly) moved on. This is one of those albums.

-- DJ Johnson

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