With Texas Rose, The Thaw, and The Beasts Castanets" Raymond Raposa keeps one foot in the rustic country, folk, and blues of past records while taking it everything to the next level. Straddling the line between "out" and accessible, the Rafter Roberts-produced Texas Rose is a full-band affair, a bent noise-country terrain of dissolving interludes and spaced-out electronic pop tracks up against songs that wouldn"t be out of place on a Merle or Willie record.