“When Warp records released Gravenhurst's *Flashlight Seasons* earlier this year, the release was unfairly raked beneath 2004's already unwieldy pile of avant-folk artifacts, despite the fact that the lineage of Nick Talbot's atmospheric songcraft could more accurately be traced back through bands like The Smiths or Slint than to established folk sources. So now, months later, Talbot and his Graven”
