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Album review by Eric Sandberg I recently reviewed a tribute album called Garden of Earthly Delights , a sprawling two-disc collection of XTC covers. All told, if you include the bonus digital selections, there are forty nine tracks by forty nine different artists, virtually none of whom had managed to come to my attention previously. That this collection was uniformly excellent throughout is a tribute to Futureman Records and the project's coordinator Keith Klingensmith. More importantly it is an indication that there is a mind bogglingly large assortment of skilled musicians, artists and producers roaming this planet albeit with very small audiences. As a music fanatic with a strong natural instinct to explore and support aspiring musicians, this put me in a quandary. I wanted to check out some of these artists' own music but, where to start? even as a latecomer to Spotify, the prospect was daunting. To start, I chose the most memorable name from the roster,...