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Sean Wheeler & Zander Schloss (Throw Rag and Circle Jerks) - Walk Thee Invisible

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Punks gone not wild! You may as well take the resumes of Wheeler and Schloss, famed for their stints with seminal punk bands Throw Rag and the Circle Jerks respectively, and toss them in the circular file. Not to discount in any way their contributions to that scene; it's just that that history is irrelevant when discussing Walk Thee Invisible, an album of acoustic and sedate music that's about as far removed from punk music as you can get. Wheeler sings all but one song here and it's hard sometimes not to hang on his every phrase. "So Low She Rose" is a simple folk song that recalls the Grateful Dead circa Workingman's Dead or American Beauty and that has a chorus that hooks you into a sing-along before you realize you even know the words. Wheeler is most adept though at bringing world-weary or even loco characters to life; on the old-west flavored "Retablo" he sounds like he's just spent three days crawling through the desert with only whiskey to drink, his only possessions the sun-baked tales he has to tell. In fact most of Walk Thee Invisible seems to come from another time and place; it's only during "Stranded" where Wheeler's reference to "booze, powder, pills and weed" pops the escapism balloon. Schloss, for his part, mostly plays 12-string guitar, ukulele and bouzouki but he also sings background and takes the lead on the deeply-spiritual "Song About Songs."

Release Date 3/8/11

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