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- Black River Killer EP
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Blitzen Trapper
Released 2009

Black Rock
01:56
956 plays

Black River Killer
03:28
2,654 plays

Silver Moon
02:46
2,492 plays

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- 1
- Black River Killer
- 03:28
- 2,654 plays

- 2
- Silver Moon
- 02:46
- 2,492 plays

- 3
- Going Down
- 02:22
- 1,293 plays

- 4
- Shoulder Full Of You
- 02:16
- 1,140 plays

- 5
- Preacher's Sister's Boy
- 01:57
- 1,057 plays

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- Black Rock
- 01:56
- 956 plays

- 7
- Big Black Bird
- 02:47
- 1,699 plays

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album review

This seven-track companion piece to Blitzen Trapper's superb 2008 release, Furr (all of the tracks have been available to fans since early 2008 in CD-R form at the band's shows), is built around that album's darkest moment, the murder ballad "Black River Killer." While the six tracks that follow don't wallow in the same waters of failed redemption as the title track, they do cling to Furr's folksier moments, resulting in a solid addendum for those who prefer Blitzen Trapper's Bob Dylan meets the Grateful Dead fetish over their visceral, vaguely psychedelic Southern indie rock jams. Standout cuts like the breezy "Preacher's Sister's Boy," the Beatlesque "Going Down," and the straight-up Skynrd-tastic "Big Black Bird" offer further proof that the Pacific Northwest (home of the Fleet Foxes and M. Ward) is not so quietly reinventing Americana for the 21st century. ~ James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide