As this appears on the experimental Road Cone label, I think we can allow it some wiggle room for being… experimental.

Suzanne Langille’s contribution is typically minimal for the artist, which leaves me without much opinion.  Her chanting singing style isn’t quite haunting enough to be effective to me, even when paired with hubby Loren mazzacane Connors evocatively sparse guitar work – absent here, though he does apply some slivers of a maraca – though Strong and Foolish Heart has some strength in its latter half when the few words are strung together with a tad more oomph.  If you’re a Langille fan, I’m not sure what’s worth tracking down to you, but lyrically / tonally I don’t see this song as offering more than the norm.

On the flip, bassist David Tholfsen of U.S. Saucer (which I’ve never listened to) offers two tracks of some bizarre chanting over very muted, maybe off-tune bass or guitar.  His singing is like a sped-up, de-rasped Double U, and is so alien I wondered if i was playing the 7″ at the wrong speed.  The bass (?) is recorded way low, and had that murky Yona-Kit sound which I dig, but its so backgrounded it ends up not adding much.  The two tracks blend into one, and it pretty much amounts to a few minutes of this weird vocal off tune bass jam, like a homeless dude playing to himself, but it’s hard to contextualize much about it since this is Tholfsen’s only solo work.