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When Saintseneca released its first full length a little over a decade ago, it was met with praise and a bit of confusion. Beyond the boilerplate "not fitting into one genre," the five-piece weaved folk, country, rock and punk with gothic, literary lyrics and unexpected instrumentation (balalaika, baglama, dulcimer). And it sounded really good. Now four LPs into its career, neither the praise nor its idiosyncratic sound have wavered. 2014's Dark Arc is a career highlight and a good place to start, but there are no duds in the catalogue. At Spirit, expect to hear songs from the new album, Pillar of Na, where you can, in the words of its title track, "weep with [them] in 4/4 time."