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Review: This Oklahoma alt-pop outfit, who found their origins in folk music, may be mostly known for their affiliations with Radiohead, and certainly 'Rituals' skirts along the same intersections between ethereal melody, introspective atmosphere and sonic experimentation that the Oxford dons made their own. Yet there are other strings to this band's bow too, Balancing out both a widescreen sweep and a bare-bones approach to arrangement, this is an understated yet very zeitgeist-tinged album with as much to offer in dystopian darkness as it does in intimacy.