Traditional American hymns performed like the world already ended and someone's singing them from memory. Wasteland 3's vocal arrangements take songs you learned in grade school and drown them in reverb and grief. The choir version of Battle Hymn Of The Republic sounds genuinely haunting, like a congregation that knows nobody's coming to save them.
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Blood Of The Lamb goes full southern gospel but twisted into something desperate. What We Did In Colorado and Is Buchanan A Man are original tracks that fit so seamlessly you'd think they were always folk standards. Power In The Union closes it out with raw conviction.
If you want to hear familiar Americana made completely alien, this collection does that and nothing else.