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IN THE VINES was recorded during a nearly year-long bout of depression for Castanets leader Raymond Raposa. It is even more sparse and delicate than the group's previous albums, at times recalling nothing so much as Nick Drake's similarly desolate PINK MOON. More directly, Raposa's contemporaries Sam Beam (Iron and Wine) and Bill Callahan (Smog) come to mind on the haunted, hypnotic "And the Swimming" and the centerpiece epic "Three Months Paid."
Personnel: Brendon Massei, Vineland House Band, Jesse Ainslie, Chrisopher Cory, Henry Nagle, The Climbing Choir, Suzanna Waiche, Nathan Hubbard, Rafter Roberts, Sufjan Stevens, Matthew Houck, Steven Byrom, Jana Hunter, Nathan Delffs, Nick Delffs, G. Lucas Crane, Sayard Egan, Raymond Raposa.
Spin (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[Raposa's] whispery vocals work well amid the woozy atmospherics..." Uncut (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The results of a year spent battling depression, IN THE VINES reveals more of its peculiar, candlelit charm with every play." Q (Magazine) (p.105) - "[F]rom the defeated EXILE ON MAIN STREET country-gospel of 'The Night Is When You Can Not See' to the desolate 'Three Months Paid'...[it's] compulsive stuff." Castanets In The Vines Songs | 1. | Rain Will Come |
| 2. | This Is the Early Game |
| 3. | Westbound, Blue |
| 4. | Strong Animal |
| 5. | Sway |
| 6. | Fields Crack, The |
| 7. | Three Months Paid |
| 8. | Night Is When You Can Not See, The  |
| 9. | Sounded Like a Train, Wasn't a Train |
| 10. | And the Swimming |
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