Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best LP xxnagnagnag with subtle layers of percussion

with subtle layers of percussion and the melodies of her beloved marimba

Add to the pot one of the most eye-popping post-psychedelic full-color gatefold jackets ever designed in the brief history of time and you’ve got a dazzling

From the hypnotic "Caberet Voltaire gone Reggaeton" patter of 'Chats With Lucy' - with its bruised drum machine rhythms and a jabbering refrain that embodies the track's title - to the crawling computer acid of 'Christian Rock Concert'

sets up his equipment facing a wall and proceeds to play for the whole day until the end of business hours

what’s always set DoS apart for me are the strange and ambitious arrangements that centre his wry

Karen Dalton - It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You The Best LP xxnagnagnag with subtle layers of percussionAn all timer from Karen Dalton finally back in circulation! Not worth rehashing the myths of Daltons life and her rediscovery all those years later (the In My Own Time doco a few years ago did a pretty solid job of dispelling and complicating a lot of the mystery), but its pretty safe to say this one has entered the canon of Greenwich Village folk. An album that toes the line between the trad and the new (at that time) in folk. A largely acoustic and