Set against the poisoned beauty of South Carolina’s Savannah River watershed, Heavy Water finds Magic Tuber Stringband threading old-time Appalachian forms through drone, field recordings, ecological ruin and Southern psychic residue. Inspired by Courtney Werner’s research into radioactive birdlife near the abandoned nuclear zone of “Atomic City,” the trio’s ninth full-length drifts between haunted fiddle laments, free-form string dissonance and environmental unease . . .
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