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His two originals, “Cleopatra” and especially “Lucy & Dixie,” have the all-caps emotionalism of the local post-rock veterans Explosions in the Sky.

The quartet, which bills their music as “shoegazing with various genres such as post-rock, post-punk, and dreampop,” has been picking up steam since 2018.

Riley’s work hearkens to Krautrock and what would be coming in post-rock.

The duo from North Carolina that records as Magic Tuber Stringband connects Appalachian tradition to Minimalism, meditation and perhaps post-rock, carrying forward the ideas of musicians like John Fahey and Sandy Bull.

A sense of weightlessness pervades the album’s 11 atmospheric cuts, festooned with galactic synths and post-rock guitars.