The Dead Tongues – Köln, Blue Shell

Over the past 15 years, The Dead Tongues have become one of the most distinctive voices in modern folk. As idiosyncratic and haunting as the songs have sometimes been, they have always linked the band's visions and verses with the kind of hooks you listen to with rapt attention.

Dust, Unsung Passage, Desert: The Dead Tongues' albums remain some of the most compelling and interesting work of their genre in this part of the century. The latest chapter in The Dead Tongues' catalog includes the song-centric and magnetic Body of Light and the rambling and wonderfully elliptical I Am a Cloud.