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ALBUM REVIEW: Chemistry, Storytelling Propel Sons of Town Hall’s ‘Of Ghosts and Gods’

ALBUM REVIEW: Chemistry, Storytelling Propel Sons of Town Hall’s ‘Of Ghosts and Gods’

Conceptual pieces and performance can easily go awry. It takes quality songwriting and a real performative commitment to not only tell a story, but to imbue it with intellectual and emotional resonance. On its new album Of Ghosts and Gods, transatlantic folk duo David Berkeley and Ben Parker, aka Sons

ALBUM REVIEW: Brit Taylor's ‘Land of the Forgotten’ Is One Banger After Another

ALBUM REVIEW: Brit Taylor's ‘Land of the Forgotten’ Is One Banger After Another

ALBUM REVIEW: Pert Near Sandstone Shine Compassion into a Troubled World with ‘Side by Side’

ALBUM REVIEW: Pert Near Sandstone Shine Compassion into a Troubled World with ‘Side by Side’

ALBUM REVIEW: Rose's Pawn Shop Take Stock of Twenty Years of Music on ‘American Seams’

ALBUM REVIEW: Rose's Pawn Shop Take Stock of Twenty Years of Music on ‘American Seams’

ALBUM REVIEW: Buck Meek’s Trick of ‘The Mirror’

ALBUM REVIEW: Buck Meek’s Trick of ‘The Mirror’

ALBUM REVIEW: Julianna Riolino Gives Her All on Deluxe ‘Echo in the Dust’

ALBUM REVIEW: Julianna Riolino Gives Her All on Deluxe ‘Echo in the Dust’

ALBUM REVIEW: Lil’ Ed Williams Goes ‘Slideways’ and Sets His Guitar on Fire

ALBUM REVIEW: Lil’ Ed Williams Goes ‘Slideways’ and Sets His Guitar on Fire