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  • Summary: The second full-length release for the singer-songwriter was produced by Cowboy Junkies' Michael Timmins and recorded in five days.
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  1. Uncut
    Jul 21, 2017
    80
    Images abound of betrayal, compromise, opportunities selfishly squandered. But a kind of redemptive enlightenment emerges. [Aug 2017, p.34]
  2. Jul 21, 2017
    80
    A Short History Of Decay is raw, honest and painful: listening to its 10 songs feels like intruding on someone’s personal grief.
  3. Aug 17, 2017
    80
    Murry reaches their greatest heights on Wrong Man, which treats a relationship’s death as a foregone conclusion to gorgeously unfiltered effect. It’s little wonder the evocatively scraped strings and precarious piano of When God Walks In barely hold themselves together, though Murry’s capacity for clarity is equally pronounced.
  4. Mojo
    Jul 21, 2017
    80
    Musically simpler and less baroque than The Graceless Age, the album's autobiographical arc is conversely harder to glean, its lyrics more oblique. Murry's greatest ability, however, is to make the listener wince uncomfortably while peeking through their fingers at his captivating, compulsive honesty. [Aug 2017, p.88]
  5. Q Magazine
    Aug 3, 2017
    80
    The results are rich in impact and surprise. [Sep 2017, p.113]
  6. Aug 15, 2017
    80
    Murry's singular talent makes sure this record never sinks beneath the weight of its influences.
  7. 40
    Ultimately these fixings lack the transformative quality to transmute depression into art.
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