Sleight of Hand

"River of Gold" [from Raising the Fawn's latest album, Sleight of hand] As with Wilco's new Sky Blue Sky, the latest release by this perpetually on-the-verge Toronto band seems destined to be misrepresented as a retreat into convention. And, as with the Wilco album, it is nothing of the sort. Instead, the spirit of experimentation merely manifests itself more organically, and amid more tightly constructed songs. The result is the best of both worlds: short and dense, melodic and noisy, accessible and restless. - Toronto Star