Pity there are no credits on the sleeve, for this is as fine an intro as you could hope for. Alternating male and female vocalists offer two gentle songs somekinda kin to Tarnation and Mazzy Star if maybe the Cowboy Junkies were backing. Not finished, of course but one hell of a start.
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