Good little indie-boy gets possessed by dead cowboy poseur and finds himself roasting hotdogs on a samurai sword in the basement,

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âSleeping With Nunchucksâ finds Quinn W. Shagbark departing from the studio excess of 2005âs âIâll Shoot You Ace I Swear To Godâ and returning to the lo-fi, mostly acoustic, quick-fast-in-a-hurry aesthetic that characterized his earliest studio apartment albums. Having nearly retired from music altogether, Shagbark made a surprise appearance in Seattle late in 2006, typically manic and frothing at the mouth with stories of cowboy samurais, and hastily recorded thirteen tracks before once again disappearing. The result is by turns soothing and disturbing, conventional and strange, but always quintessential Shagbark.

Songs like âWhere Do We Go From Here?â harken back to a time before moogerfoogers and synthesizers, when Shagbarkâs oblique lyrics were rarely dressed in anything but three-chord folk songs, while âLiving on The Edge This Ainâtâ more or less reeks of moogerfoogers and synthesizers.

Rarely has Shagbark sounded more at peace than on âSmoke The Rest Tomorrow,â but the weaponized affection of â(Iâm going to hurt myself) Really Bad On Purpose (because I know itâs going to hurt you worse)â may qualify as the most cruelly bizarre of Quinnâs myriad songs involving a body getting buried out back by the sycamore.

Rumored to have been inspired by a martial arts display at a Pacific Northwest rodeo, âSleeping With Nunchucksâ is a portrait of Quinn W. Shagbark once again doing what he does best: Writing and recording medium-length songs that, for better or worse, couldnât possibly have come from anywhere else.