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Miguel Rios Biography First Album Release: ‘Slaughterhouse Road’ Release date: November 20th 2020. Album bio: “Nothing much came or went from it, just a useless band of barefoot misfits.” Miguel Rios is a story-telling guitarist; always giving space in his songs to powerful lyrics that speak of closed doors, magic men, replica pistols, and the cold spaces that no fire can warm. Slaughterhouse Road, his second full-length album, has a pared-down grittiness, rich hypnotic timbre and heartbreakingly beautiful interludes of violin and mandolin by collaborators Ash Jones and Matt Stonehouse. Co-produced by Miguel and Greg O'Shea, who also engineered and mixed the album, Slaughterhouse Road was recorded straight to tape in a small tin music studio set among the scrawny eucalyptus of Cottlesbridge, north-east of Melbourne, during the Capricorn eclipse full moon. “We said we wanted that full moon madness and we certainly got all of that,” says Miguel. “It rained... stormed actually. The