The intense interplay between Matt Foster and Michael Davis gives this dark, foreboding album of murder ballads its body. This is small town Gothic where secrets are kept and revealed. Flattville Murder Album is a concept piece, running 71 minutes, cast against the harrowing acoustic sounds of an Appalachian apocalypse complete with banjos, fiddles, Dobro and piano with an occasional foray into folk-rock. In an musical era of songs as a single unit, Medford`s Black Record Collection have created an musical essay complete with beginning, middle and end. The tale is dark. The journey is worth the nightmares that might ensue. -- Jeff Weiss, Miles of Music (self-released)
