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“You Can Hear Us If You Listen”: Tom Smith’s “Lights of New York City” Is an Ode to Memory, Youth, & Living Beyond Time
“Why You Digging Your Own Grave?”: Jonathon Penn Unearths Grace, Guilt, & Reckoning on “Compensation (Or, The Snake Song),” a Tender, Rattled Folk Song
“Plant Your Roots Upon My Tired Bones”: Driftwood Choir’s Ed Prosek Finds Forever Beneath the “Tall Pines” in a Breathtaking Indie Folk Reverie of Fatherhood, Legacy, & Light
“A Eulogy and a Prayer”: Bella Cloud Lets Old Love Linger on “Spin,” a Breathtakingly Intimate Indie Folk Reverie
“Everybody’s Missing Their Medullas”: Debbii Dawson Dances Through Modern Dread on “Where Have All the Good Men Gone?,” a Disco-Pop SOS for the Hero in Us All
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byAtwood Magazine’s writers dive into Snail Mail’s expansive and striking third album ‘Ricochet,’ a grown-up and emotionally refined evolution of Lindsey Jordan’s indie rock world – unpacking its balance of polish and grit, and the way it broadens her sound without losing the raw vocals, weeping guitars, and restless feeling that made Snail Mail feel so singular in the first place.
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