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Rebecca Feynberg first gained notice with a small but dedicated cult following in her native Guelph, Ontario. Her literate and highly personal songwriting won over fans and critics all across Canada, and soon she was imported by record producer Kim Fowley (of Runaways fame) to the United States. After releasing her eponymous debut album to mixed reviews, she returned to Guelph, enlisting the help of a new backing band to record her second album, "Another Side of Rebecca Feynberg". The album was a hit among the music critics, with Mojo Magazine calling it "a shot to the heart with kinetic live-band energy and coffee-house intimacy." The record made many year-end top 10 lists, with her singles "Should Have Been" and "(You Have) Six Smiles" reaching numbers 16 and 27, respectively, on the charts. After the success of "Another Side", she released "In My Time of the Gallows", a largely avant-garde record, produced by John Cale. The record was praised for its audacity, ethereal melodies and "wall-of-sound ambiance", with the Tufnel Reader calling it "a 'musique concrète' masterpiece, ranking alongside Steve Reich and Karlheinz Stochhausen." However, the album failed to find an audience, debuting at number 144 on the Billboard charts. Following the commercial failure of "Gallows", taking advice from the moribund Lee Hazlewood, Feynberg traveled to Sweden to record what would be known as her magnum opus, 2007's "The Great Purge". She embraced a stripped-down sound for the album and