Beautiful, classic singer-songwriter sixth LP from the Vermont folk artist, best known for Broadway success with the 2010 album and musical Hadestown, these finely crafted low-key piano and guitar-led numbers compare favourably with 1970s Joni Mitchell, Aimee Mann or recent acoustic Taylor Swift. It’s a consistently strong album filled with memorable lines and images, such as opener Brooklyn Bridge, a song about arriving into New York, and Bright Star. With much of the rest of the album focused on Vermont, here’s also a reflective, taking-stock theme here too, with this self-title album, the 40-year-old, who has been releasing music for two decades, writing with emotional strength about long-term relationships, children and the future on tracks such as Now You Know, Little Big Girl, and Watershed, the process of opening a box of deceased relative’s possessions on Revenant, childhood memories and teenage parties on Backroads, and with On Your Way, the passing of another musician. An album that’s beautifully paced, mature, is bright, light and also full of emotional depth. Out on BMG.
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