Reviews
Braids Flourish // Perish
Published Aug 16, 2013
Get Braids drummer Austin Tufts going on about the sound of Flourish//Perish and you'll struggle to stop him: "beautiful" and "intimate" cro...
Articles By Jazz Monroe
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