On *Caveman Wakes Up*, Friendship’s second album for Merge Records, the band further expands its definition of country music. Jangling guitars are balanced by flute washes, mournful poetry is set against a Motown rhythm section, a song about Jerry Garcia and First Lady Betty Ford concludes with a drum solo, as if Talk Talk came from a grimy Philadelphia basement and was performed by James Tate. Songwriter Dan Wriggins’ raspy baritone moves through eleven churning, murky country-rock songs with profound textual substance and sincerity. *Caveman Wakes Up* belongs as much to the conscious as to the subconscious, back-loaded, infused with references and experimentation, delivered casually and as a dire warning, dedicated above all else to the creative soul of music.
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