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Poor workmen, the old saw goes, always blame their tools. Proving the converse — that real talent renders the selection of implements immaterial — the two Spinanes employed only guitar, voice and drums on Manos to produce fully developed and highly distinctive indie-rock. Best, the group managed the neat trick of sounding perfectly right while…

Pedro the Lion’s David Bazan emerged from Seattle in the late 1990s as the perfect embodiment of the contradictions of whatever “emo” was supposed to be. At the time a devout evangelical Christian, he wrote songs grappling with his own deep moral convictions riven by merciless attacks on his own hypocrisy and that of the…