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Begushkin is the masterwork of Brooklyn's swinging sultan, multi-instrumentalist and masterful songwriter Dan Smith & friends. Begushkin's debut full length Nightly Things is an 8 track journey into a creepy & disturbing surreal nightlife full of enemies, coarse love, and violence delivered with both a manic desperation and deadpanned absurdity that's augmented by Smith's intricate guitar picking & a woman's mournful harmonies. Nightly Things is a twisted stroll through the cadaver of the american psyche. Folk song is recast in a witches brew of electric psychedelic nuance and middle eastern & eastern European musical influences. The result is a beautifully disorienting trek through a musical landscape that's immediately striking & creepy.

It’s also a record that almost never happened. In an age when even the most ordinary items seems to have a back up or a double, we have only chance & good fortune to thank for the existence of this album. On a Satu...