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The Achievers
The Lost Arc
(Freehouse Records)
THE ACHIEVERS’ life-enhancing approach to music-making draws on elements of gospel, blues, Americana and Southern Soul to create a heady hybrid.
Those innovative charms illuminate this eagerly anticipated follow-up to the Stroud band’s highly regarded 2018 debut Live at the SVA, with the vast majority of the tracks recorded live in the studio over a couple of days earlier this year in an attempt to recapture the spontaneity of this fine outfit’s rabble-rousing live act.
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