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ALBUM REVIEW: Emma Swift’s 'The Resurrection Game' is End-to-End Melancholy

ALBUM REVIEW: Emma Swift’s 'The Resurrection Game' is End-to-End Melancholy

Emma Swift paints with subdued blue tones in slow, deliberate strokes. Indeed, listening to her new album The Resurrection Game is less like processing a collection of songs and more like getting to know the shapes and shades of a melancholy painting. “Meet me at the station / where the roses

ALBUM REVIEW: West Texas Exiles Come to Town on ‘8000 Days’

ALBUM REVIEW: West Texas Exiles Come to Town on ‘8000 Days’

ALBUM REVIEW: Carson McHone’s Dazzling ‘Pentimento’ Pursues Higher Truths in the Real World

ALBUM REVIEW: Carson McHone’s Dazzling ‘Pentimento’ Pursues Higher Truths in the Real World

ALBUM REVIEW: Darol Anger’s Diary #2 Stands as Testament to His Impact on the World of Fiddlers

ALBUM REVIEW: Darol Anger’s Diary #2 Stands as Testament to His Impact on the World of Fiddlers

ALBUM REVIEW: With ‘Double Infinity’ Big Thief Are Even-Tempered and Introspective

ALBUM REVIEW: With ‘Double Infinity’ Big Thief Are Even-Tempered and Introspective

ALBUM REVIEW: Grant-Lee Phillips Confronts Strange Days on ‘In the Hour of Dust’

ALBUM REVIEW: Grant-Lee Phillips Confronts Strange Days on ‘In the Hour of Dust’

ALBUM REVIEW: Margo Price's 'Hard Headed Woman' is Wise, Sad, Exquisite Country Music

ALBUM REVIEW: Margo Price's 'Hard Headed Woman' is Wise, Sad, Exquisite Country Music