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rock/pop
CwE is a shaggy, Dr. Dog-like, West-Philly-to-Fishtown quintet that makes easy, breezy, summery pop with a rough-and-tumble feel. There's lots of screeching girl/boy harmonies and squelchy rhythms and blaring trumpets. On occasion you can hear waves under the old-school surf pop. And the live shows are shambolic. On their debut concept album, Nowhere, OK, they sing raw-knuckled tales of zombie love, vampires and devils' doings like nobody has since the first Roky Erickson and the Aliens album. Add in some rich, full-moon gypsy folk interludes and you can almost see the wolf bane blooming over F-town.