Thrift Store Cowboys’ Light Fighter selected as a 2010 Hidden Treasure by Magnet Magazine

“Light Fighter sparks a new direction for this traditionally Southern-sounding, alt-county sextet from Lubbock, Texas, which last year faced tragedy when the band’s equipment trailer—containing more than 3,000 of its records—burned to the ground in the carport of singer/guitarist Daniel Fluitt’s home. Over the course of 12 haunting tracks, Light Fighter pulses with haunting harmonies, builds and breaks with driving crescendos and intricate instrumentation, then is capped off with Fluitt’s honest, rough voice, which is as much an instrument itself as the steel guitars, violin and drums. Thrift Store Cowboys have meshed genres, blurred black and white and created an LP that plays dark, indie and folk.”
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