Sailors With Wax Wings' 2010 album is anything but convoluted, using most of its sticky-slow 53 minutes to focus on ghosted textures, squalling riffage, and melodic theatrics. Think Earth taking on the brash demonstrativeness of Muse, and you're pretty close. Participants include Ted Parsons(Swans), Simon Scott(Slowdive), Marissa Nadler, James Blackshaw.....

Stiff card gatefold sleeve has minor edge wear; disc a handful of light scratches.

• 1 Soft Gardens Near The Sun, Keep Your Distant Beauty
• 2 There Came A Drooping Maid With Violets
• 3 If I Should Cast Off This Tattered Coat
• 4 And Clash And Clash Of Hoof And Heel
• 5 Yes, I Have A Thousand Tongues, And Nine And Ninety-nine Lie
• 6 God Fashioned The Ship Of The World Carefully
• 7 There Was One Who Sought A New Road
• 8 Strange That I Should Have Grown So Suddenly Blind