Music
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A lovely and tender record from the multi-talented Neko Case. The New Pornographers chanteuse has a cool sound on her new disc. Country is still the main stylistic reference (and even a bit of gosp...read more
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Folks have been finding all kinds of truth in Willie Nelson’s music for decades, and now it’s Matthew Houck, the indie-country star better known as Phosphorescent, trying on 11 songs Wi...read more
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Artists who’ve been around as long as Neko Case, and who’ve been roundly celebrated by critics and cash registers alike, tend to get taken for granted after a certain point. Yet Middle ...read more
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The longer he runs with his Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy quasi-persona, the more natural and free Will Oldham sounds. Because his songs (not just as Billie) have so powerfully mixed humor, sex...read more
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This is, surprisingly from this dark duo, an album of love songs. I was going to crack that finally they’ve given us an album where nobody gets murdered, but then I noticed that one of the love son...read more
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I'm not qualified to review this album—I've only listened to it eight or nine times so far. And as fans of Will Oldham's work know, his cryptic, sometimes rawly sexual lyrics can take much longer t...read more
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Confronted with Lambchop's 11th album, the warm and mystifying swirl of sumptuous strings and spare guitar, piano and brushed drums gathering around my ears, I recall a brief, curious and wonderful...read more
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