Chuck Ragan's raw acoustic guitar hits you like campfire smoke in your lungs. The Flame in the Flood has a full Americana folk soundtrack that sounds like it was recorded in a leaky shack on the riverbank, and it completely works.
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"Landsick" has this aching slide guitar that just sits in your chest, while "Spanish Moss" drifts into something almost ghostly with its fingerpicking. "In the Eddy" builds with banjo and vocals that feel genuinely weathered.
The whole thing carries this quiet desperation that never lets up. If you've ever floated down that procedural river watching your supplies dwindle, this soundtrack was already narrating your slow unraveling.