Various - Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 / Various

Various - Strum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983-1987 / VariousStrum & Thrum: The American Jangle Underground 1983 1987 is the first volume of Captured Tracks' new venture into compilations Excavations. Inspired by Pebbles, Killed By Death, Soul Jazz and Numero Group compilations, Excavations is a series dedicated to compiling forgotten music from the 1970s 1990s that has a connection to Captured Tracks' sound and aesthetic. Much like the Cleaners from Venus, the Wake, and Sada Bonaire reissues we've put out,

but incredibly clear

and vibrations of hammering heartbeats

hymnal grace and a profound sensation of stillness and inner peace

Double vinyl LP pressing housed in custom dust sleeve

stubbornly perpetuating it's variations

Pianist Lonnie Liston Smith had been on Thiele's final important Impulse

high-energy single "Deleter

" highlighting the powerful rhythm section of bassist Ryan Lerner and drummer Ruben Limas

Pete Flux flows over the instrumentals like a cloud front over mountains

textural and psychedelic

Side B is bookended by two country-blues influenced numbers

Magnolia evolved into something far more intimate and spiritual