You gotta love an album called Angels Of Destruction! that opens with a song called "Coughing Up Blood" that includes lines about stringing veins in trees and covering leaves with the red stuff and somehow isn't by Current 93. Okay, maybe you don't, but we do. It helps that Marah's sound is a pleasingly wordy, rooted Americana that coats the Philly-to-Brooklyn sextet's city-of-brotherly-love-swallowing, volcanic and cancerous apocalypse in jazzy piano and banjo tinged, jayhawking rock 'n' roll. Plus, it's not all end-of-the-world gore. As Van Zandt-y vocalist Dave Bielanko explains during the extensive narrative build, he's also a snowflake and a dove. Now that's multi-tasking.

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