The Builders and the Butchers - Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well

Available on maroon wax, limited to 200 "Although you wouldn't know it from reading the trades or listening to your local commercial radio station, there is a folk revival going on in the early years of the new millennium. Old-time music bands, singer/songwriters, and acoustic bards are busy every night and day walkin' down the highway and filling the air with acoustic jubilation. Well, maybe not jubilation, at least not in the case of the Builders and the Butchers. The band came of age in Portland, OR, a town better known for its long rainy winters than its sunshine, and gloomy visions of winter, death, dissolution, and decay figure heavily into the lyrics of these songs. As the band's name, album title, and cover art — with its drunken clowns, hanging carnival workers, and a stage made out of human viscera — suggest, this is not an easy listen. The band, with the help of their invited guests, takes us on a harrowing trip to the edge of sanity to peer into the abyss without sugarcoati