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Nick Charyk, frontman of White River Junction-based cosmic honky-tonk band Western Terrestrials, is the first to admit that he likes a good theme when creating an album.
(Self released, digital) I love when a record has a big mood. And if the two overriding themes driving that mood are outer space and the lonesome West? Yippee ki-yay, parental fornicator! Vermont's oddball alt-country outfit Western Terrestrials deliver the peanut butter and jelly of genre tropes on their newest album, Back in the Saddle of a Fever Dream. Recording partly in Nashville, Tenn., the Terrestrials shook off natural disasters and a pandemic to deliver a record that feels as consistent as it is stylized. Opener "Space Cowboy's Got the Blues" ushers the listener right into t...