Dept of Energy not only one-ups the band’s intelligent debut last year, but establishes a new band for Benson fans to rally behind.

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All in all, quite a wonderful, well-rounded and textured EP that seems neither disjointed nor unintentional in its entirety."

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The top Northwest releases of 2004 as voted on by you, our readers (see winners #30-21 here).

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The title track and album-opener releases itself with the lyric "Creation is going in circles." In the last track he sings, "I have a story to tell you, but the words are undetectable." Somewhere in between the two self-consciously vague lines, Benson presents an album better than anything he has put out before...

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