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Oxbow Marks Its Return With The Sweet, Snarling And Ambitious 'Other People'

Strings and horns are integral to Oxbow's dark, perverse, Baroque rock experimentalism.
Oxbow's new album, <em>Thin Black Duke</em>, comes out May 5.

Over nearly three decades, the Bay Area band Oxbow has been nothing but uncompromising and unpinnable — a simultaneously snarling and, sees the band play with the romanticism of pop music, like arranging demented charts for sludge-downers .

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