CORKER / CONBOY - SIX FOR FIVE (MCD)

Whether it be the clipped guitar matrices, lulling percussion or beguiling keyboard and recorder melodies of the title track, or Okay Okay's delightful folk flourishes (featuring Paul Conboy's intimate vocal debut - and what a convincing debut!) - this is Corker/Conboy's sublime musical vision refined to an irresistible quintessence; and then some. While the three distinctive remixes - by ex-Gastr del Sol mainstay and Fat Cat recording artist David Grubbs, plus one each from Derailer and Xela - are equally persuasive and lend this alluring sonic tableau the kind of coherent beauty most remix projects never even approach.