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It’s not every day you hear something as fresh and familiar as Cabinessence. Call it what you will — psychedelic country, Pet Sounds meets Sweetheart of the Rodeo, plantation art-rock, “Glam Parsons” — It’s not country, but it’s not exactly not country, either. Rising from the ashes of Springfield’s stillborn power-pop outfit Marigold (Outpost Records), Jacob Arnold and Nathan Maricle have grown up, embraced their inner Merle Haggard and put together an alt-country band that would make Marc Bolan (T. Rex) proud. Drawing liberally from the varied textures of pop, folk, rock and country music, the sound is as familiar as it is invigorating, and with nods to every nook and cranny in the American pop music pantheon, it’s every record geek’s wet dream. But it’s not all nostalgia. This time around, Arnold and Maricle have enlisted the help of multi-instrumentalist David Pulliam, a jazz guitarist who convincingly evokes a circa-1970 Nashville studio player with work on Hammond organ, elec...