The Ascetic Junkies

Refusing to be pigeonholed, quintet the Ascetic Junkies intermingles bluegrass with modern pop and rock in a way that keeps toes tapping.With more and more bands in town learning about the power of acoustic instruments, we should be thankful they can wrench some great sounds out of them. The quintet known as the Ascetic Junkies does just that by introducing the stomping joy of bluegrass and country into its navel-gazing pop (à la Tilly and the Wall but without that silly tap dancing thing). The resulting music, as heard on the band’s debut, One Shoe Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has quickly marked it as one of the best young groups in Portland.

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