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CLAIRE CRONIN - Big Dread Moon LP Cold Wave critical joyBig Dread Moon by Claire Cronin is a record of spiritual urgency. Cronin's lyrics and melodies draw on the the stranger aspects of early American musical tradition, revealing the genres ties to folk horror, wherein supernatural and mundane worlds merge. Quietly sinister ballads like "Tourniquet" and "Wolfman" arise from the weird logic of dream, myth, and half forgotten memories. Suburban homes, TV screens, and city landscapes are haunted by saints,