Off-kilter, left-field, quirky, loose, surreal, low-fi, ramshackle, abstract, lively, spirited, unhinged... these are the kinds of words and phrases that Paleo’s ‘Fruits of the Spirit’ evoke. Tripped-out, cracked, avant-garde, groovy, wild, rough and ready... these all apply too. Rifling through a thesaurus for synonyms would only scratch the multi-faceted surface of this nutty record, though.
What it boils down to is the fact that if you put Pavement and Truman’s Water in a room together with a bagful of drugs and orders to record a folk album before they’re allowed out, it would probably emerge sounding something like this. Psychedelic, slack and completely plantpot, ‘Fruit of the Spirit’ is utterly bonkers, completely off the wall and a whole lot of fun.
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