OH, YOU'RE BACK, ARE YOU?

The woebeggoten marriage of the style of the Ku Klux Klan and the message of Peter, Paul and Mary that is the Polyphonic Spree believe there's some mileage in their schtick, still. Tim DeLaughter has announced plans for a new album under the title The Fragile Army.

Oddly, the cult deprogramming experts don't seem that bothered about trying to restore Spree members to everyday life. "Look" one told us, on condition of anonymity, "deprogramming is a tricky thing - you have to be close to these people, sometimes for weeks on end. And, frankly, none of us want to have to sit listening to them doing tracks from Together We're Heavy for as long as it would take to get them back to normal."

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