To contrast with the verdant beauty of the music, Hanson's dark lyrical outlook and wizardly vocals keep things from getting too mindful or relaxed. For a more modern reference, there's a little bit of the Moles and the solo work of Richard Davies creeping around the well-burnished edges as well. Nick Drake, Bill Fay, and Simon & Garfunkel influences run deep, as do any number of private-press weirdos who released albums in the early '70s and promptly vanished. The Unborn Capitalist from Limbo turns out to be a very pretty orchestrated folk-pop album, lushly arranged with strings and gently strummed acoustic guitars. When word came out that their leader, Cory Hanson, was readying a solo album, it was difficult to guess what path he might take. quartet Wand made a name for themselves as excitingly unpredictable purveyors of psychedelic music of all stripes, be it jangling pop, thrashing metal, or trippily bonkers acid rock. The tempo and dynamics continue to grow until it reaches its breaking point, sending the lead guitar into a tantrum which departs as abruptly as it started.Over the course of three albums released in a very short time, the L.A. The track begins with the guitar, eerily painting a vast countryside with storms on the horizon.

The lead guitar on this track cannot go without mention, clearly inspired by the grit and fearlessness of Neil Young. “Another Story from the Center of the Earth,” a nearly eight minute epic, over a quarter of the album’s length, is dramatically chaotic.

The expansion follows the trend of mixing American folk instruments with forward thinking production, such as the duet of finger picked guitar and steel guitar on “Vegas Knights” and the mixture of pulsing synths and bird sounds on “Paper Fog.” His lyricism, deliberate and focused, maintains strong thematic ties throughout the course of the ten tracks. The album represents an evolution from Hanson’s previous releases and broadens the scope of his musicality.

The album, much like the desert it was recorded in, shifts from the heat of “Angeles,” ‘smoke and fire, on the ground’ to the laid-back, cool lyricism of the title track “Pale Horse Rider.” Apparitions manifest over the collection of songs, as well as psychedelic fuzz guitars reminiscent of Hanson’s full band outfit, Wand. Its understated elegance, by way of Americana instrumentation, including pedal steel, fiddle and vocals placed poignantly front and center, paints harsh landscapes that are dichotically rural and urban. Cory Hanson’s latest album, Pale Horse Rider, released by Drag City this past spring, haunts its predecessor, The Unborn Capitalist From Limbo.

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