Edito de After the Barn GoesREVIEW: A bit of a last-minute entry, as Red Swan celebrated the release of this album only two weeks ago, ?Cold Winter?s Dawn? caught this listener by surprise. A Lansing band with a tendency to fly under the local radar, Red Swan favored a noisy, warts-and-all approach with last year?s ?After the Barn Goes.? Expecting a similar, good-but-not great offering from the 2005 follow-up, I was pleasantly surprised by an album where not only have the bars been raised on each member?s individual performance, but the song-writing actually stumbles upon some musical beauty. It?s one of the richest and fullest recordings from a Lansing act in any genre. Tossing aside some of the dissonance in favor of psychedelia, Red Swan delves into something wholly original that seems to mate the most adventurous rock of the late 60?s with some of the doomiest metal sounds of the 00?s '" while simultaneously inviting over Irish folk rock and banjo virtuosity for the baby shower. Outstanding.