Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter, 'Marble Son' (Station Grey)

August 2, 2011 – Alternative country, hell. Singer Jesse Sykes' fourth album with guitarist Phil Wandscher is more like alternative universe, a sprawling psych-rock vision that evokes the unsettling moment when you wake up from a half-remembered fever dream. Wandscher (an original member of Whiskeytown) drives the ship with riffage ranging from gently atmospheric to snarling quasi-metallic. Still, it's Sykes' voice that impresses. …
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