The Whys and Hows of Herman Düne and Cerberus Shoal

12 tracks on this split, the first seven belonging to the French anti-folk band Herman Dune, the last five played by experimental folk collective Cerberus Shoal hailing from the USA. Herman Dune inserts silly little acoustic aside breakdowns of harmonicas and bells among their four longer "proper" songs, separating the sparse introspections. They do some excellent violin work here. Cerberus Shoal kicks off their half of the split with an intro much weirder than anything Dune does, but that's expected. I've mentioned it before in my other responses to Shoal music, but when they ditched boring-ass post-rock and were brave enough to follow their freak, they actually got good. This collective is very good at constructing quiet folk epics that hang together on rust and stitches.