We tend to follow the release calendars of our friends at No Depression and Miles of Music closely. If there are errors on those two sites you can probably count on them being wrong here as well. You should also see some additions by us for artists we feel fit our audience outside of other sources.
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Spring 2008

June 3

• ED HARCOURT, The Beautiful Lie (Dovecote)
• OPPENHEIMER, Take The Whole Midrange And Boost It (Bar/None)

May 20

• ABIGAIL WASHBURN & THE SPARROW QUARTET, The Sparrow Quartet (Nettwerk)
• EXPLORERS CLUB, Freedom Wind

May 13

• AMOS GARRETT, Get Way Back: A Tribute To Percy Mayfield (Stony Plain)
• BLACK ANGELS, Directions To See A Ghost (Light In The Attic)
• CHUCK LEAVELL, Live In Germany: The Green Leaves And Blue Notes Tour (Evergreen Arts)
• DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, Narrow Straits (Atlantic)
• DENNIS WILSON, Pacific Ocean Blue: Legacy Edition (Caribou/Epic/Legacy)
• DUKE ROBILLARD, A Swinging Session With Duke Robillard (Stony Plain)
• LOCAL H, 12 Angry Months
• MURRY HAMMOND, I Don’t Know Where I’m Going… (self-released)*
• OLD 97′S, Blame It On Gravity (New West)
• PATTI ROTHBERG, Double Standards (Double On Tundra)
• PETER WALKER, Echo Of My Soul (Tompkins Square)
• STAIRWELL SISTERS, Get Off Your Money (Yodel-A-Hey)
• T BONE BURNETT, Tooth Of Crime (Nonesuch)
• THE HUMMING FIELD, The Humming Field (self-released)*

May 6

• ADAM PUDDINGTON, For The Meantime*
• ELVIS COSTELLO, Momofuku (Lost Highway)
• ERSI ARVIZU, Friend For Life (Anti-)
• EVEREST, Ghost Notes (Vapor)
• FIREWATER, The Golden Hour (Bloodshot)
• FRANK CARILLO & THE BANDOLEROS, Someday (Jezebel)
• GOOD INTENTIONS, Poor Boy (Boronda)*
• JEB LOY NICHOLS, Days Are Mighty (Compass)
• MEKONS, The Mekons Story (Buried Treasures)*
• MIDNIGHT OIL, Diesel & Dust: Legacy Edition (Columbia/Legacy)
• NO AGE, Nouns (Sub Pop)
• RACHAEL SAGE, Chandelier (MPress)
• SIERRA HULL, Secrets (Rounder)

April 29

• BOMBADIL, A Buzz, A Buzz (Ramseur)
• FAYSSOUX, Early (Red Beet)*
• GRIFFIN HOUSE, Flying Upside Down (Nettwerk)
• HAYDEN, In Field & Town (Fat Possum)
• HENRY BUTLER, PiaNOLA Live (Basin Street)
• JOHN NELSON, Tengo Ranchito (Mystery Bay)*
• LANGHORNE SLIM, self-titled (Kemado)
• NATASHA BORZILOVA, Cheap Escape (Hadley)
• PETER COOPER, Mission Door (Red Beet)*
• PORTISHEAD, Third (Mercury)
• ROBERT FORSTER, The Evangelist (Yep Roc)
• TERRI CLARK, My Next Life (BNA)
• THE ROOTS, Rising Down (Def Jam)

April 22

• AMELIA, A Long, Lovely List Of Repairs (Adrenaline)
• BILLY BRAGG, Mr. Love & Justice (Anti-)
• CAROLE KING, Tapestry: Legacy Edition (Epic/Ode/Legacy)
• CLAY MCCLINTON, Son of A Gun*
• CHRIS MILLS, Living In The Aftermath (Ernest Jenning)
• DAVE MC CANN & THE TEN TOED FROGS, Shoot The Horse (Old Man River Folk Music)*
• FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS, self-titled (Sub Pop)
• GREG LISHER, Trains Change (Chiseled Out)
• JOHN NELSON, Tengo Ranchito (Mystery Bay)*
• LOVE, Forever Changes (Rhino)
• LYRICS BORN, Everywhere at Once (Anti-)
• MICHAEL DOUCET, From Now On (Smithsonian Folkways)
• REPLACEMENTS, Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash; Stink; Hootenanny; Let It Be (Rhino)
• STEVE RILEY & THE MAMOU PLAYBOYS, Best Of (Rounder)
• TAB BENOIT, Night Train To Nashville (TelArc)
• THE WEEPIES, Hideaway (Nettwerk)

April 15

• A.A. BONDY, American Hearts (Fat Possum)
• AARON ROBINSON, We Are Racing Ghosts (Undertow)
• AMERICAN PRINCES, Other People (Yep Roc)
• BLACK FRANCIS, Svn Fngrs (Cooking Vinyl)
• CLAY MCCLINTON, Son of A Gun*
• DAVE MC CANN & THE TEN TOED FROGS, Shoot The Horse (Old Man River Folk Music)*
• DIANNE REEVES, When You Know (Blue Note)
• DIXIE BEE-LINERS, Ripe (Pinecastle)
• JAMES MCMURTRY, Just Us Kids (Lightning Rod)
• JOHN NELSON, Tengo Ranchito (Mystery Bay)*
• JORDAN ZEVON, Insides Out (New West/Ammal)
• JUSTIN NOZUKA, Holly (Glassnote)
• KRIS DELMHORST, Shotgun Singer (Signature Sounds)
• THE CLASH, Revolution Rock: Live (Legacy)
• TRISTAN PRETTYMAN, Hello (Virgin)
• WILDERS, Someone’s Got To Pay (Trade Root)
• YONDER MOUNTAIN STRING BAND, Mountain Tracks: Volume 5 (Frog Pond)

April 8

• BO RAMSEY, Fragile (self)
• BREEDERS, Mountain Battles (4AD)
• COLIN MELOY, Skulls, Ships, Sheep (Kill Rock Stars)
• GIBSON BROTHERS, Iron & Diamonds (Sugar Hill)
• GNARLS BARKLEY, The Odd Couple (Downtown)
• GWIL OWEN, Gravy (Rambler Records)*
• HAYES CARLL, Trouble In Mind (Lost Highway)
• IKE REILLY, Poison The Hit Parade (Rock Ridge)
• LONGVIEW, Deep In The Mountains (Rounder)
• NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS, Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Anti-)
• ROY DAVIS THE DREGS, Deadweight (self-released)*
• THE DUKE SPIRIT, Neptune (Artist First)
• WAS (NOT WAS), Boo! (Rykodisc)

April 1

• APPLES IN STEREO, Electronic Projects For Musicians (Yep Roc)
• BLACK KEYS, Attack & Release (Nonesuch)
• BRIAN BLADE & THE FELLOWSHIP BAND, Season Of Changes (Verve)
• COLLIN HERRING, Past Life Crashing (self-released)*
• DAVE INSLEY, West Texas Wine*
• GEORGE STRAIT, Troubadour (MCA)
• JACKIE GREENE, Giving Up The Ghost (429)
• JOE FOURNIER, Dirt Road Joyride (Junkyard Dog)*
• KATHY MATTEA, Coal (Captain Potato)
• MATTHEW RYAN, Matthew Ryan Vs. The Silver State (00:02:59)
• MOBY, Last Night (Mute)
• PADDY CASEY, Addicted To Company” Pt. 1 (Red Ink)
• POI DOG PONDERING, Seven (Platetectonic)
• PROCLAIMERS, Life with You (W14)
• R.E.M., Accelerate (Warner Bros.)
• VAN MORRISON, Keep It Simple (Lost Highway)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, The Very Best Of Outlaw Country (Legacy)
• VICTOR WOOTEN, Palmystery (Heads Up)
• WILLIE NELSON, One Hell Of A Ride (Columbia/Legacy)

Winter 2008

March 25

• ARTY HILL & LONG GONE DADDYS, Bar Of Gold (Cow Island)*
• B-52s, Funplex (Astralwerks)
• COUNTING CROWS, Saturday Nights And Sunday Mornings (Geffen)
• ELF POWER, In A Cave (Ryko)
• FRED EAGLESMITH, Tinderbox (MPLA)
• HAYSHAKER, Black Holiday In Mexico City*
• JIMMY GAUDREAU & MOONDI KLEIN, 2:10 Train (Rebel)
• JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE, The Good Life (Bloodshot)
• LACH, The Calm Before (Fortified)
• LEMONHEADS, It’s A Shame About Ray (Rhino)
• LILI HAYDN, Places Between Places (Nettwerk)
• LINDSAY BUCKINGHAM, Live at the Bass Performance Hall (Reprise)
• RACONTEURS, Consolers Of The Lonely (Third Man/XL)
• RICKY SKAGGS & KENTUCKY THUNDER, Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass: Tribute To 1946 & ‘47 (Skaggs Family)
• SAM MELLON & THE SKYLARKS, Sam Mellon and The Skylarks (self-released)*
• TIM O’BRIEN, Chameleon (Proper American)
• TONY TRISCHKA, Territory (Smithsonian Folkways)
• WAYBACKS, Loaded (Compass)

March 18

• JOSEPH ARTHUR, Could We Survive (MRI)
• ADAM GREEN, Sixes & Sevens (Rough Trade)
• ALAN SPARHAWK, Retribution Gospel Choir (Caldo Verde)
• BODEANS, Still (Oar Fin)
• BUTCH RYAN BAND, Time to Wait (self-released)*
• BRYAN ADAMS, 11 (Universal)
• CORTEZ DEL MAR, You Did This To Yourself (self-released)*
• DESTROYER, Trouble in Dreams (Merge)
• DEVOTCHKA, A Mad And Faithful Telling (Anti-)
• DANIEL LANOIS, Here Is What Is (Red Floor)
• SERA CAHOONE, Only As The Day Is Long (Sub Pop)
• SHE & HIM, Volume 1 (Merge)
• WES CHARLTON, World On Fire (Wildflower)

March 11

• DAVE INSLEY, West Texas Wine (DIR)
• DESTROYER, Trouble In Dreams (Merge)
• ERIC BIBB, Get Onboard (TelArc)
• GENERAL STORE, Mountain Rescue (Brewery)*
• GREG LASWELL, How The Day Sounds EP (Vanguard)
• IMAAD WASIF & TWO PART BEAST, Strange Hexes (label TBA)
• JEFF HEALEY, Mess Of Blues (Ruf)
• JOE ELY & JOEL GUZMAN, Live Cactus! (Rack ‘Em)
• KINGSIZEMAYBE, Kingsizemaybe (Brewery)*
• PETE FRANCIS, Iron Sea and the Cavalry (Scrapper Records)
• PETER COOPER, Mission Door (Red Beet)
• PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, These Are The Good Times People (Fugitive)
• SHAWN MULLINS, Honeydew (Vanguard)
• THAD COCKRELL, To Be Loved EP (self)*
• THE KILLS, Midnight Boom (Domino)

March 4

• ALAN JACKSON, Good Times (Arista-Nashville)
• ALBERT COLLINS, Live At Montreaux 1992 (Eagle)
• BLACK 47, Iraq (United For Opportunity)
• BLACK CROWES, Warpaint (Silver Arrow/Megaforce/Sony)
• BODEANS, Still (Resolution)
• CARLENE CARTER, Stronger (Eleven-Thirty)
• CAROLINE HERRING, Lantana (Signature Sounds)
• CHATHAM COUNTY LINE, IV (Yep Roc)
• DAVID WILCOX, Airstream (What Are Records?)
• DAWN LANDES, Fireproof (Cooking Vinyl)
• EDDY “THE CHIEF” CLEARWATER, West Side Strut (Alligator)
• ELI “PAPERBOY” REED & THE TRUE LOVES, Roll With You (Q Division)
• FELICE BROTHERS, self-titled (Team Love)
• FLOGGING MOLLY, Float (SideOneDummy)
• GUTTER TWINS, Saturnalia (Sub Pop)
• JACKSON BROWNE, Solo Acoustic Vol. 2 (Inside)
• JIM BIANCO, Sing (Hotel Cafe)
• JIM WHITE, Transnormal Skiperoo (Luaka Bop)
• JO CAROL PIERCE, Dogs Of Love (self)
• KATHLEEN EDWARDS, Asking For Flowers (Zoe/Rounder)
• LYNYRD SKYNYRD, Street Survivors (Geffen/Universal)
• MARK PICKEREL & HIS PRAYING HANDS, Cody’s Dream (Bloodshot)
• MEG HUTCHINSON, Come Up Full (Red House)
• MICHAEL MCDONALD, Soul Speak (Universal Motown)
• MURDER BY DEATH, Red Of Tooth And Claw (Vagrant)
• RUBY SUNS, Sea Lion (Sub Pop)
• SMOKIN’ JOE KUBEK & BNOIS KING, Blood Brothers (Alligator)
• STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS, Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
• WACO BROTHERS, Waco Express: Live And Kicking At Schubas Tavern (Bloodshot)
• WAIFS, sundirtwater (Compass)
• WEINLAND, La Lamentor (Badman)
• WHAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS, What Doesn’t Kill Us (Barsuk)
• WHISKEYTOWN, Strangers Almanac Deluxe Edition (Universal)

February 26

• AUSTIN COLLINS, Roses Are Black (Fat Caddy Records)
• CHRIS HICKS, Dog Eat Dog World (Ramblin’)
• COWBOY JUNKIES, Trinity Revisited (Latent/Zoe)
• DOLLY PARTON, Backwoods Barbie (Dolly)
• ERYKAH BADU, New Amerykah Part One (Universal Motown)
• MISSY HIGGINS, On A Clear Night (Reprise)
• PATTY HURST SHIFTER, Coma La Grava (Pants on Fire)*
• PUNCH BROTHERS, Punch (Nonesuch)
• RICHARD JULIAN, Sunday Morning In Saturday Shoes (Manhattan)
• ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, R.I.P. (Vagrant)
• SARA MELSON, Dirty Mind (Nettwerk)
• TIFT MERRITT, Another Country (Fantasy)
• TOUMANI DIABATE, The Mande Variations (World Circuit/Nonesuch)
• TRENT WILLMON, Broken In (Compadre/Music World Ent.)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Stax Does The Beatles (Stax/Concord)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Stax Sings Songs Of Motown Records (Stax/Concord)

February 19

• ALLISON MOORER, Mockingbirds (New Line)
• AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, The Golden Age (Merge)
• ARLEN ROTH / LEVON HELM, Toolin’ Around Woodstock (Aquinnah)
• BELL X1, Flock (Yep Roc)
• BOB FRANK, Red Neck, Blue Collar (Memphis International)
• BRENDAN JAMES WRIGHT & THE WRONGS, Brendan James Wright & The Wrongs (self)*
• GARY LOURIS, Vagabonds (Rykodisc)
• GRAND ARCHIVES, self-titled (Sub Pop)
• IDA, Lovers Prayers (Polyvinyl)
• JACKSON BROWNE, Solo Acoustic Volume 2 (Inside)
• JIM LAUDERDALE, Honey Songs (Yep Roc)
• jON DEE GRAHAM, Swept Away (Freedom)
• KULA SHAKER, Strange Folk (Cooking Vinyl)
• LARRY STEPHENSON, Thankful (Pinecastle)
• MARIANNE FAITHFUL, No Regrets (Great American)
• MIKE DOUGHTY, Golden Delicious (ATO)
• MOUNTAIN GOATS, Heretic Pride (4AD)
• NICK LOWE, Jesus of Cool 30th Anniversary Edition (Yep Roc)
• PAUL THORN, A Long Way From Tupelo (Perpetual Obscurity)
• PONDERING JUDD, Coalesce (self)*
• NICK LOWE, Jesus Of Cool (Yep Roc)
• RAY DAVIES, Working Man’s Cafe (Ammal/New West)
• SEAN COSTELLO, We Can Get Together (Delta Groove)
• SEVEN MARY THREE, Day & Night Driving (Bellum/Icon)
• TED LUKAS, Misled (self)*
• THE RAVEONETTES, Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
• TOM PAXTON, Comedians & Angels (Appleseed)

February 12

• ANTIETAM, Opus Mixtum (Carrot Top)
• BLUE HIGHWAY, Through The Window Of A Train (Rounder)
• BUZZ CASON, Hats Off To Hank (Palo Duro)
• CARRIE NEWCOMER, The Geography Of Light (Rounder)
• CATHERINE RUSSELL, Sentimental Streak (World Village)
• DOUG HOEKSTRA, Blooming Rosses (WingDing)
• FLAT DUO JETS, Two Headed Cow (Chicken Ranch)
• KATE MAKI, On High (OWOM)
• MACEO PARKER, Roots & Grooves (Heads Up)
• MARTIN HAYES & DENNIS CAHILL, Welcome Here Again (Green Linnet)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Cinnamon Girl: Women Artists Cover Neil Young For Charity (American Laundromat)
• WIDESPREAD PANIC, Free Somehow

February 5

• A.K.A.C.O.D., Happiness (self-released)
• BASIA BULAT, Oh, My Darling (Rough Trade)
• BETH NIELSEN CHAPMAN, Prism: The Human Family Songbook
• BOB MOULD, District Line (Anti-)
• CAROLYN WONDERLAND, Miss Understood (Bismeaux)
• DEAD MEADOW, Old Growth (Matador)
• DEVASTATIONS, Yes U (Beggars Banquet)
• JACK JOHNSON, Sleep Through The Static (Brushfire)
• JASON COLLETT, Here’s To Being Here (Arts & Crafts)
• JOSH RITTER, In The Dark (w/DVD) (Independent Ireland)
• K.D. LANG, Watershed (Nonesuch)
• KELLEY STOLTZ, Circular Sounds (Sub Pop)
• LENNY KRAVITZ, It Is Time For A Love Revolution (Virgin)
• LIZZ WRIGHT, Orchard (Verve Forecast)
• MANDO SAENZ, Bucket (Carnival)
• NADA SURF, Lucky (Barsuk)
• NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS, The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Fort O.S.T. (Mute)
• OST, My Blueberry Nights (Blue Note)
• OTIS TAYLOR, Recapturing The Banjo (TelArc)
• PAUL WELLER, Wild Wood (Yep Roc)
• REVEREND HORTON HEAT / REVEREND ORGANDRUM, Hi Fi Stereo (Yeproc)
• SCREAMING TREES, Clairvoyance (Hall Of Records)
• SHERYL CROW, Detours (A&M)

January 29

• BEN VAUGHN COMBO, Beautiful Thing (Noble Rot)
• BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA, Down In New Orleans (Time-Life)
• CHRIS STILLS, self-titled (KCJ)
• DAILY & VINCENT, self-titled (Rounder)
• ED SANDERS, Sanders’ Truckstop and Beer Cans On The Moon (Collector’s Choice)
• JEWLY HIGHT, Darlin’ Understand (self-released)
• JOE JACKSON, Rain (Rykodisc)
• KATE WALSH, Tim’s House (Verve Forecast)
• KINGSTON TRIO, Once Upon A Time and Twice Upon A Time (Collector’s Choice)
• POPA CHUBBY, Deliveries After Dark (Blind Pig)
• PURITAN RODEO, We All Share The Same Secret (self-released)*
• ROBERT POLLARD, Superman Was A Rocker (Happy Jack Rock)
• SHELBY LYNNE, Just A Little Lovin’ (Lost Highway)
• THAO WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN, We Brave Bee Stings And All (Kill Rock Stars)
• TIM HENSLEY, Long Monday (Rural Rhythm/Blue Chair)
• TWILIGHT HOTEL, Highway Prayer
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Always Lift Him Up: A Tribute To Blind Alfred Reed (Proper American)
• WEBB WILDER & THE BEATNECKS, Born To Be Wilder (Blind Pig)
• WHISKEYTOWN, Strangers Almanac Deluxe Edition (Geffen)
• WILLIE NELSON, Moment Of Forever (Lost Highway)
• WRIGHTS, self-titled EP (Alan’s Country Records)

January 22

• BABY DEE, Safe Inside The Day (Drag City)
• BARTON CARROLL, The Lost One (Skybucket)
• BEN ALLISON, Little Things Run The World (Palmetto)
• BIIRDIE, Catherine Avenue (Love Minus Zero)
• CARTRIDGE FAMILY, Shine Like a Bottle (Doublenaught)*
• CAT POWER, Jukebox (Matador)
• DELANEY BRAMLET, A New Kind of Blues (Magnolia Gold Records)*
• DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, Brighter Than Creation’s Dark (New West)
• ERIC MATTHEWS, The Imagination Stage (Empyrean)
• FLESHTONES, Take A Good Look (Yep Roc)
• JASON RINGENBERG, Best Tracks And Side Tracks 1979-2007 (Yep Roc)
• JASON QUICKSALL, My Wiser Side (Bright Orange Records)*
• KENNEDYS, Better Dreams (Appleseed)
• LIAM FINN, I’ll Be Lightning (Yep Roc)
• LISA LOEB, The Purple Tape (Furious Rose
• MARS ARIZONA, Hello Cruel World (Big Barn)
• MATT COSTA, Unfamiliar Faces (Brushfire)
• MICHAEL HOLLAND, Simple Truths And Pleasures (Moll/Forced Exposure)
• NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALL-STARS, Hernando (South Of The South)
• OWEN TEMPLE, Two Thousand Miles (El Paisano)
• PACK A.D., Tintype (Mint)
• PATTY LARKIN, Watch The Sky (Vanguard)
• STEVE POLTZ, Traveling (98 Pounder)
• TIMES NEW VIKING, Rip It Off (Matador)
• WALTER HYATT, Some Unfinished Business Volume One (King Tears)
• WHIGS, Mission Control (ATO)

January 15

• AMERICAN MARS, Western Sides (Gangplank)*
• ANNE MURRAY, Duets: Friends & Legends (EMI)
• BLACK MOUNTAIN, In The Future (Jagjaguwar)
• DEAR AUGUST, Come In, Keep Dry (self-released)*
• ELAINE ELIAS, Something For You: Elaine Elias Sings And Plays Bill Evans (Blue Note)
• ERIC LINDELL, Low On Cash, Rich In Love (Alligator)
• HAYDEN, In Field & Town (Hardwood)
• MAGNETIC FIELDS, Distortion (Nonesuch)
• MALCOLM HOLCOMBE, Gamblin’ House (Echo Mountain)
• PETER HOLSAPPLE & CHRIS STAMEY, Mavericks (Collectors’ Choice)
• RINGO STARR, Liverpool 8 (Capitol/EMI)
• ROOMFUL OF BLUES, Raisin’ A Ruckus (Alligator)
• SCOTT FROSETH, If You Knew Me (self-released)*
• STEELDRIVERS, self-titled (Rounder)
• THE WHIPSAWS, 60 Watt Avenue (self-released)*
• TRENT WILLMON, Broken In (Compadre)
• TYLER RAMSEY, A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea (Echo Mountain)

January 8

• AMANDA SHAW, Pretty Runs Out (Rounder)
• GREYHOUND SOUL, Tonight and Every Night (Reslience Records)*
• JOHN ANDERSON, I Just Came Home To Count The Memories; All The People Are Talkin’; Eye Of A Hurricane; Tokyo, Oklahoma; Countrified (Collector’s Choice)
• JOHN TRAIN, Mesopotamia Blues (Chapter 7)*
• JON ITKIN, Big Gold Guitar in the Sky (self-released)*
• KATE NASH, Made of Bricks (Fiction)
• MARAH, Angels Of Destruction! (Yep Roc)
• MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD, Let’s Go Everywhere (Little Monster)
• REVEREND ORGANDRUM, Hi-Fi Stereo (Yep Roc)
• RHONDA VINCENT, Good Thing Going (Rounder)
• SIA, Some People Have Real Problems (Astralwerks)
• IIIRD TYME OUT, Footprints: A IIIrd Tyme Out Collection (Rounder)
• VARIOUS ARTISTS, Soul Summit (Shanachie)
• WISELY, Wisely (Oglio)

January 1

• RADIOHEAD, In Rainbows (ATO)

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