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	St Thomas "I've never seen a cowboy before," sings Thomas Hansen in the opening moments of I'M COMING HOME, ST THOMAS' debut album for City Slang Records. It's hardly surprising, when you consider that Thomas is 25 years old and lives in Oslo, Norway. Cowboys aren't exactly a way of life up there. This makes it all the more remarkable that I'M COMING HOME is such a masterful addition to the canon of what some call alternative country, what others call Americana, but what we like to think of simply original, unique and extraordinary music. Hovering somewhere between Neil Young's tremulous falsetto, Galaxie 500's precarious fragility and Will Oldham's sense of gothic country, ST THOMAS's music is more than simply the sum of its influences, a Nordic take on Appalachian country. It's an inspirational, intimate and unusual sound that seeps into the consciousness under cover of night. Hidden beneath the banjo and fiddle beats the heart of true pop, albeit one that is unlikely to crack the daytime playlists quite like it did in Norway. But we can dream of a world where it does. watch the "cornerman" video: real 56k/isdn  real dsl More info (external link)