Impelling as always, on Cracker's latest, Greenland, the band intensifies with a sort of new-fashioned 'freedom rock' - provided you separate the two words and re-pair them without the retro- kitschy irrelevance. Greenland is as rootsy as it is experimental, and as foreign as it is familiar. Few bands among the modern rock set could make a record as diverse and cohesive. Of course fewer still have a singer with the unalienable bragging rights of David Lowery, who, quite naturally, has made Greenland anything but a boast.
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