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- Summary: The sixth full-length release from the singer-songwriter features contributions from Peter Broderick, Heather Woods Broderick, Rob Burger, Ryan Francesconi, Daniel Hunt, and Luke Ydstie.
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- Record Label: Allpoints
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Feb 9, 2018A wonderful album, undoubtedly a career best and an exemplary case study in how to respond artistically to a life-changing event.
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UncutFeb 9, 2018Insanely beautiful, with the strength and delicacy of spider silk. [Mar 2018, p.25]
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Feb 9, 2018On Cusp, Diane embraces the yet-to-come that she has set in motion for herself with a clarity of purpose and a musicality all the more sublime for the time she has spent living.
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Feb 9, 2018The album title comes from Menig’s near-death during childbirth, and her subsequent realisation that we are forever “on the cusp” between death and life, heartbreak and euphoria, all of which are in fulsome supply here.
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Q MagazineFeb 16, 2018These 11 songs are unashamedly informed by her maternal role in its varying facets of joy, growth, complexity and, on the self-explanatory So Tired, exhausting labour. But it also ranges more wildly. [Mar 2018, p.107]
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Feb 28, 2018It’s a wounding, life-affirming ride.
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Feb 26, 2018Some patience is required, but if you embrace the slow burn, Cusp will slowly reveal itself to you; the bright harmonies covering Diane’s darkest lyrics will come crumbling down. And when that happens, all you can do is listen--in awe of the beauty born from personal pain.
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Mar 11, 2018Her voice is like an old friend you haven't seen in a long time, her lyrics are beautiful and the sound it's just perfect.
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Nov 10, 2018She works her voice perfectly, how she play with words making it sweet to perform is beautiful. One of the greatest live singers I've ever heard.
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