Frontier Ruckus

Add Date: February 26 

Artist: Frontier Ruckus 

Album: Eternity of Dimming 

Label: Quite Scientific 

Genre: Folk rock 

Comments: Frontier Ruckus' music and lyrics are more than a little incongruous; stylistically, this is banjo-driven folk rock, but Matthew Milia's lyrics are more suited to, say, indie pop. As NPR explains: "[Frontier Ruckus] brings a contemporary angle to its music, eschewing traditional tales of trains, whiskey and rambling for reflections on suburbia, family and 'life on the edge of the interstate.'"

Eternity of Dimming is the third release from this Michigan outfit, and it's a rather ambitious double LP. But with Milia's songwriting prowess and earnest delivery, David Jones' banjo (and other assorted stringed instruments), Ryan Etzcorn's percussion and the 20-plus instruments that Zach Nichols plays, everything works out quite well.

Start with tracks 1, 8 and 2 from disc one and 7, 2 and 4 from disc two.