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Es difícil comprender exactamente por qué Gelb haría un nuevo comienzo al revisar un puñado de canciones que grabó a mediados de los 80, especialmente porque él y sus compañeros de banda atacan estas canciones de una manera que es notablemente diferente a las grabaciones originales, pero no tanto como para calificar como reinvención. Si la producción de Valley of Rain lo marca como un producto de la era de demasiada reverberación digital, Returns cuenta con un sonido más limpio y directo, y el vago tintineo de las grabaciones de 1985 es reemplazado por un ataque de guitarra más duro y zumbante; notablemente, Giant Sand suena más como una banda de garaje ruda y tumultuosa en 2018 que la primera vez que grabaron estas melodías. El ataque de guitarra de Gelb, Gabriel Sullivan y Annie Dolan es descuidado pero con cuerpo, y el baterista Winston Watson y los bajistas Thoger T. Lund y Scott Garber golpean lo suficientemente fuerte sin dominar la dinámica natural de las interpretaciones. Y hay una bienvenida espontaneidad en las sesiones que favorece la introspección polvorienta de las letras de Gelb y la deriva decidida de las melodías. 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It was time to make up for lost time.‚Äù \u003cbr\u003eTime was of the essence. \u003cbr\u003eThat thin line between then and now has seen journeymen Giant Sand release 27-ish albums, their latest, ‚ÄòRecounting The Ballad Of The Thin Line Men‚Äô turning the clock back to 1986‚Äôs ‚ÄòBallad Of A Thin Line Man‚Äô, picking over the bones and making a whole new soup. \u003cbr\u003eAll these years on, the latest incarnation of Giant Sand: Howe Gelb (guitars, piano) Tommy Larkins (drums) and Th√∏ger Lund (bass), have dusted off the old vinyl and re-imagined those heady days ‚Äì they‚Äôve polished these buried gems, reignited some truculent tirades and rekindled an ageless angst. \u003cbr\u003eThe revamp re-orders the tracks, drops a couple and adds ‚ÄòReptillian‚Äô, a previously lost song hailing from their album‚Äôs 25th anniversary re-issue, a tune that opens proceedings and basks in all its crinkly glory. 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Featuring piano lounge music for an off-world colony interrupted by an onslaught of guitar when needed, it‚Äôs light and dark and the better for it, a musical journey on a road less travelled. With Gelb‚Äôs lyrical invention to the fore: ‚ÄúHis thoughts unfold in long, rolling sentences that don't always follow conventional rules of grammar or syntax.‚Äù The Quietus \/\/ The Tucson sound at it very best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA1 Warm Storm A2 Romance Of Falling A3 Wonder A4 Welcome To My World A5 Anti-Shadow A6 Neon Filler B1 Jazzer Snipe B2 Z.Z. 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