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Satoru Kousaki

the album features new artwork by renowned artist Gustaf Fjelstrom and comprehensive liner notes by Mike Ostrich who has interviewed the band over the past year

their first live album in 20 years

' and 'Fell on Black Days'

Hot Comb GN co-op or rescue the innocent fromHot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into Black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story is about a young girl's first perm a doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming "too white" in the all black neighborhood her family has just moved to. Realizations about race, class, and the imperfections of identity swirl through Flowers' stories,