Rotary Downs

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Rotary Downs is an American indie rock band from New Orleans. Morning Edition ranked them among "the year's best outsider artists: musicians whose remarkable recordings went largely overlooked in 2007," and characterized their album Chained To The Chariot as "a stunning collection of psychedelic art-pop songs that play like brilliant mashups of Neutral Milk Hotel and Odelay-era Beck".^[1]

Chained To The Chariot was recorded in the months preceding and following Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, as described in a feature on Current TV.^[2]. Some of the band's work on the album was damaged by the flood, but later salvaged. In the wake of the disaster, band members described a sense of increased artistic collaboration and cross-pollination in the music scene in New Orleans.^[3]