Stamen & Pistils
Towns
[Echelon Productions]
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Stamen & Pistils’ Towns nods to classic American folk as it passes through that genre with a blowtorch, singeing the edges with strokes of  innovative noise. The result is something that seems almost familiar, like a neighbor of déjà vu.  To do the stereotypical music review shorthand of referencing combinations of similar artists, Towns is like a cross-country bus trip taken with Animal Collective and M. Ward.  The tour guide through this charred Rockwellian countryside is vocalist Raul Zahir …