Altered Zones

The outsider psych-folk of Wormtown County's Bobb Trimble is all things strange and beautiful wrapped up in cult legend, but when the teenage Crippled Dog Band asked him to front for them, the devastion present on previous albums seemed to melt away. Left in its place was an inspired brand of luminous, heavily flanged pop. Following recent reissues on labels like Orpheus Records and Secretly Canadian, Trimble's "lost" third effort is finally getting its second chance on every popular format available. Whichever you chose, you're bound to be transported.--Ian Pearson, Altered Zones

The Crippled Dog Band LP/CD/cassette/digital download is out later this month on Yoga Records