by Tom Osborne in Playlists, Streams

Backyard Tire Fire, Vagabonds and Hooligans (O.L.E. Records) Good stuff from Athens and Asheville rooted Backyard Tire Fire. Now putting it down in Bloomington, IL the trio delivers a promising new record titled Vagabonds and Hooligans. You gotta love an album whose first verse reads: Instruments and cable ties and bottles on the floor / The voice of Wayne Coyne bringing back the dead / Vagabonds and hooligans are wrapping at the door / Of the house that sits on a hill inside my head. I look forward to tearing into this one some more. An album preview is available from the BTF web site. File under: alt-country, rock.

WORTH MENTION:

• Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Like, Love, Lust & the Open Halls of the Soul (Barsuk)
• Bloc Party, A Weekend In the City (Wichita)
• Apples in Stereo, New Magnetic Wonder (Yep Roc)

ALSO LOOK FOR:
Patty Griffin, Rickie Lee Jones, Ruthie Foster, Sondre Lerche

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