Radar Bros.: The Illustrated Garden

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Radar Bros.’ sixth LP The Illustrated Garden features an entirely new rhythm section and a surfeit of songs about birds (as opposed to the eclectic menagerie covered on the band’s 2008 album Auditorium), but otherwise the new album is recognizably the work of singer-songwriter Jim Putnam. Aside from a few uptempo numbers, The Illustrated Garden offers track after track of spacey country-rock that clops along like a cowpoke. The record spins the mood that Radar Bros. fans have come to expect: that feeling of being happily sunbaked and mildly delirious, subsisting on pure sensory intake.