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- Summary: Mike DeVito joins Courtney Werner and Evan Morgan for Magic Tuber Stringband's first full-length release as a trio. It was inspired by Courtney's work on ecological research project on possible radioactivity on wildlife at the Savannah River Site.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Folk, Avant-Garde
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May 26, 2026Extraordinarily skilled composers and improvisers, the Stringband’s playing and choices are impeccable throughout, but it’s their deep knowledge of folk music traditions – and the way the trio both subverts and reinforces those traditions – that really gives this music its shape.
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May 26, 2026Heavy Water is unique in its sonic remembrance of a more modern tragedy, one whose environmental and emotional repercussions are still being felt today.
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UncutMay 26, 2026Fiddle and banjo veer between gentle bucolic landscaping and clamorous cacophony, while occasional field recordings add further colour. [Jun 2026, p.33]
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May 26, 2026Most of the noisier and more heavily manipulated tracks appear on the album’s less accessible A-side. For heady listeners, this will be a field day; for others, a test of faith. Stay the course. The luminescent B-side, a release valve for the intensity of Heavy Water’s first half, contains some of the most beautiful music I’ve heard in recent memory.