Crooked Fingers Red Devil Dawn Vinyl

Red Devil Dawn was the third Crooked Fingers album inside of four years, and in hindsight-at 15 years old, it's a god damn teenager now-it feels like both the pinnacle and the end of Crooked Fingers Phase One.

Bachmann had perfected the art of darkness, of finding his characters and stories in solitude and then adding or subtracting sounds and players to make them come alive. Never had they seemed more personal or more vulnerable than on Red Devil Dawn, from the ornery argument on "You Threw a Spark" to the heartbreaking album closer "Carrion Doves," which posits that "what can make us one can make us come undone."