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  • Summary: The seventh full-length release for the Washington State-based singer-songwriter was recorded over two years in a church-turned-studio on a Washington island.
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  1. Jul 1, 2016
    80
    Anagrams is the product of a musician fast maturing.
  2. Uncut
    Jul 1, 2016
    70
    The Liquid "I'm Turning Inside Out" and lyrically unsettling, Bon Iver-ish "Shine A Light On Him" are standouts in a quietly haunting set. [Aug 2016, p.83]
  3. Jul 5, 2016
    70
    By improving his craft, layering sharper melodies over increasingly sophisticated arrangements. Steinbrink’s music--so often insular, gorgeous in its way yet tentative--has grown up, becoming wiser and more confidently strange, ready to embrace the world outside his bedroom window.
  4. Jul 1, 2016
    60
    Anagrams is not nearly as watery as, say, Vetiver, but it's some distance from the righteous majesty of The Shins.
  5. Mojo
    Jul 1, 2016
    60
    Slightly fey at the start, this album gets better as it goes on. [Aug 2016, p.96]