Sugar by Dead Confederate

Sugar is the second full-length album from Dead Confederate, the Athens, Georgia band T. Hardy Morris helped start, and it came out in August 2010 on The Artists Organization and Razor & Tie as the follow-up to Dirty Ammo. They cut it in Hoboken, New Jersey early that year with John Agnello, the producer whose past work with Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth and the Hold Steady says plenty about the kind of guitar noise he likes.

It sounds exactly like that pairing promises: swampy alt-country drawl, psychedelic sprawl and grunge sludge poured into one long, hazy afternoon. Critics have compared the band to Nirvana and My Morning Jacket, and here you can hear both, the loud-quiet bruising and the reverb-soaked Southern ache. "Giving It All Away" was the song that found its way onto the countdowns.

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