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A study in contrasts, <a href="spotify:artist:4ab2tQaaTr2TnairelOwvO" data-name="Nicole Atkins">Nicole Atkins</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:4qRZ52cOmVLagcluBZREIY" data-name="Jim Sclavunos">Jim Sclavunos</a> make music that is a perfect synthesis of their eclectic tastes and backgrounds. With up-tempo kraut-rock grooves sitting alongside deconstructed sambas, space-rock confessionals and wistful ballads – the pair’s songs evoke thumbnail intimacies in vast empty spaces. “I think our music sounds like heavy ancient books thrown down to the gutter from the gods during a hurricane -- in slow motion,” declares Atkins. “I think our songs sound like psychedelic folk tunes written by lonely Martians,” rejoins Sclavunos.