Spins well alongside: Drive By Truckers // Wilco // White Buffalo // Desire-Era Bob Dylan // The Band Life unfolds throughout Carapace, pushing boundaries of Americana and folk-rock music. TLDOTY explores southern rock with lap steel in “Last Gray Day” and the grit-tinged rock driving through “Black Horse Canyon and “Me & Jeroboam & the Moon.” They lay back to feel out psychedelic jazz in “My Little Mirage.” Songwriter, t.Mule, digs a deep well into self. He is his grandfather’s pallbearer while wearing the suit he borrowed post-death, he considers the failure of not living up to expectations, he searches for forgiveness. In the title track “Ride on the Carapace” TLDOTY explores duality, the beast and beauty that gives and takes, the hope and doubt that lives and breathes inside us all.