Charalambides – Exile [2LP]

"Exile is the new CHARALAMBIDES album. Five years in the making, it was recorded between 2006 and 2010 in various locations in New Hampshire, western Massachusetts and New York City, mixed at Black Dirt Studios, and mastered at Sand with PAUL GOLD. The group remains the core duo of CHRISTINA and TOM CARTER, with contributions on one track by the string section of HELENA ESPVALL and MARGARIDA GARCIA. Deeply imbued with the full historical spectrum of american folk and blues song form, Exile is a tapestry of suppliant invocations directed at the heart of the unseen spiritual forces surrounding us. Dense arrangements and thickly-overdubbed tracks sit side-by-side with material that ranks among the sparest and most skeletal the group has recorded, giving Exile the psychic scope of their classic Market Square album while building on the refinements of the more recent Likeness and A Vintage Burden releases."

Kranky, 2011