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On their debut album, Homecoming, the Keith Robinson Band aimed to create a record that was true to Southern Arizona—but avoided sounding "local." In many ways they succeeded. While never straying far from a folk/rock template, much of the album's singularity can be attributed to frontman Keith Robinson's lyrics jumping between genre conventions and more abstract themes—and hell, even a mellotron made its way in between the acoustic guitars and desert imagery. The album opens with "Lost In Space," a rock song much in the borderlands vein, with fuzzy guitars and driving drums. However, it ...