Curse Your Branches

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Bazan took his first steps away from his band, Pedro The Lion, on this 2009 album, which was mostly recorded at his home in Seattle. Themes of man’s struggle with sin pop up throughout the record’s 10 songs, which served to put Bazan on the map as one of his generation’s great singer-songwriters. He in fact, does take a folksier approach here, which is maybe no surprise then that his next release was a single in which he covered Bob Dylan on side A and Leonard Cohen on side B. "Hard To Be," "When We Fell," "Bearing Witness," and more. Barsuk.