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This album has been added to 3 public lists:

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  Painted Album Covers

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  Painting by Henry Stoehr

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  Best, Favorite, & Most Interesting Albums Of 2023

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  • Genre: Indie rock, indie folk, shoegaze, coffeehouse.

  • Influenced by: Lucinda Williams, Fleetwood Mac, Sarah McLachlan, Death Cab For Cutie.

  • Similar artists: Alvvays, Wednesday, feeble little horse, Mia Joy.

  • About this album: The second full-length release for the Chicago-based indie rock band. Early in 2021, when it was time to write this album, front woman Emily Massey decided to isolate herself in a cabin in northern Wisconsin. Isolated by winter weather and the Pandemic, Massey spent her days writing songs on the guitar and recording demos on her laptop. The cabin didn't even have an internet connection. Not even a haunted VCR tape. But it DID have an old CD collection that had been left behind and that's where Massey happened to find a CD called "Essence" by some chick named Lucinda Williams. Because of course she did.

  • Metacritic Score: 77 (Generally Favorable Reviews).

  • Grammy Nominations: None.

  • Song To Sample: Gone 2.

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  Aging hipster’s top albums of 2023

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