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India Ramey's Shallow Graves kicks off with a shudder of woozy, western guitar, sounding as much like the soundtrack to some long-lost cowboy epic as the follow-up to Ramey's critically-acclaimed national debut, Snake Handler. Progressive, gritty, and darkly cinematic, this is a record inspired by the turbulent present, stockpiled with songs that take aim at the liars, leaders, and hypocrites among us. Ramey calls it her "post-apocalyptic western," and she fills the album's tracklist with plenty of fury and alt-country firepower to match.
Ramey's voice—laced with Bible Belt drawl and Southern sparkle—swoons during the slower songs and sounds appropriately outraged during the album's fast, fierce highlights, driving home the human heart that beats throughout Shallow Graves.