The story of two young spies in Europe during the beginning of the Cold War, Matt Olsson‘s verbose folk-concept album Part One: The Sabotage is the first of two installments. Calling on varied influences from The Decemberists, Tom Waits, and Devendra Banhart, as well as a number of literary works, The Sabotage has a musical scope to match the expansive narrative scope. With love, death, gunfights, and intrigue, the 11-song album is full of the passion and detail of a Romantic European novel. That his melodies are so strong and his music so interesting only makes the experience all the better.