Revisionist Western

I keep meaning to write a post on the occasional flirtations metal has had with what might be called "western music" (not country music, more like the kind of music that scores western films) and, were I to do that, T.G. Olson's band Across Tundras would, no doubt, be front and center in that conversation. However, he's gone ahead and released a solo album called "Revisionist Western" so I guess I have  to write something about it before I get to that, huh? Olson is, as mentioned, the main performer in the long-running and criminally  underrated psychedelic-western-post-metal-rock-whatever band Across Tundras. Their output over the last two decades has been consistently incredible and it's baffling to me that they haven't been given their critical due for such a remarkable, ongoing body of work. Olson was also in some pretty good hardcore bands back in the day, most notably The Spirit of Versailles, who I saw absolutely crush a set at a venue called