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Ester Drang's Velvet-Draped Space-Rock Returns 'From The Ruins'

On its first release in 12 years, Ester Drang illustrates that heavily reverbed space-rock truly pops when paired with heavenly melody.
Ester Drang's <em>The Appearances</em> comes out Oct. 26.

It's like that scene in where John Cusack's character claims he can sell five copies of Beta Band's just by playing "Dry the Rain" in his record store. Whenever I play , , for

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