Alexander Tucker, a new addition to the ATP roster, shows a firm grasp of psychedelic folk and experimental sound sculpture on ?Old Fog.? Tucker?s guitar talents have garnered him guest-spots with Jackie-O Motherfucker, Bardo Pond and Sunn 0))) in recent years. The only real link between those storied ensembles and Tucker?s solo work is a pronounced drone/psych vibe, though one track here does turn up the industrial fuzz. These days it seems everyone has a ?free folk? band, which makes it harder and harder to make any real impression among the myriad imitators. Tucker responds to this dilemma with a more structured trad folk sound that owes to the likes of Stone Breath and recent Current 93, with a production that?s earthy and slightly sedated. There are a few ethnic free jazz flourishes interspersed, but it?s the beautifully flowing acid folk numbers that impress most. The title track (where spectral banjo and acoustic guitars give way to searing drones), ?Phantom Rings? and ?Of Late? all bridge the gap between old folk and devotional noise in the same way as many greats--Sandy Bull to John Fahey--have done before, though Tucker has his own secret weapon, an almost operatic vocal, that helps separate him out from the pack. 7/10 -- Lee Jackson (14 October, 2005)