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Slipped Disc: The Transgressors (Shamrock)

IT'S A SIN: Neither as perverse

as the Attic Ted nor as ethereal as Okkervil River, the Transgressors – featuring former members of Chris Black & the Holy Ghost, including Black himself – are still part of that twisted tree of macabre rural goth. Their closest analogue may be the haunted, hellhound-dodging reveries of Denver's Sixteen Horsepower.

SONGS TO LEARN & SING: While "Cuban Death

Waltz" has its heart in Morricone country and "Montoro" is a fractured south-of-the-border vaquero ballad (named for bassist/trumpeter Craig Montoro), "The Way of the Wild" and "The Beginning of the End" recall nothing so much as the overcast vocals and moody aesthetics of Liverpudlians Echo & the Bunnymen. Really.

CD release Saturday, June 5, at Club de Ville with the Bloody Tears and DJ Mike Mariconda.