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Grand Theft Autumn Records recently released a split album by the Lassie Foundation and Duraluxe. Cryptically entitled Music from the Film: I Duel Sioux and the Ale of Saturn, the CD will feature six songs from each band. While both bands dabble in atmospheric, dreamy space-rock, the Foundation is decidedly the less harder-edged of the two. Band members and Californians Eric Campuzano, Wayne Everett, Frank Lenz, Jason-71, and Jeff Schroeder recently parted ways, but that didn't stop them from releasing this and possibly another full-length Lassie album on Grand Theft Autumn. According to the label, "These lads take androgynous layered vocals to new gender-bending levels." Surely, this will confuse Morrissey, who thought he had the market cornered on that.

Duraluxe, on the other hand, features Chris Colbert, Troy Daugherty, Tommy Wedge, and Mark Emge playing their particularly anthemic brand of rock and roll. Grand Theft Autumn says that, "Duraluxe mine similar space-pop territories, with a serrated eighties darkwave angle and a psych-rock edginess that borders on the dayglo-dangerous." We're sorry, but we cannot clarify the meaning of "dayglo-dangerous" for you. However, we will say that it definitely sounds less irritating than gender-bendering androgyny.

[The Lassie Foundation]
01 Good Times Comin' My Way
02 Look All Ways
03 The Psalm of the Strongest Man
04 All Together Now
05 The Golden State
06 You Could Shoot Me Down

[Duraluxe]
01 Ruled By Fear
02 Hit So Hard
03 All Right
04 She Wants a Lucky Strike
05 Easy to Believe
06 The Ones You Trust