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  • Summary: The third solo album for Mojave 3 singer was produced by Nick Holton and features members of Wallingford’s Band of Hope.
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  • Record Label: Brushfire
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Indie Folk
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Digging Shelters
Computer, what’s the point in this? You do all the thinking where we - Just digging shelters in the snow - Build a house of dream and domino I... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 12
  2. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Q Magazine
    Nov 21, 2012
    80
    A quietly beautiful record. [Dec 2012, p.105]
  2. Sep 26, 2012
    80
    The quality, depth, and otherworldliness that Halstead has achieved here elevates it above being just another folk album.
  3. Halstead's songs and Euros Childs-like voice breathe the sort of honesty and goodness that's harder and harder to find in the iTunes age.
  4. Sep 13, 2012
    70
    Halstead gets closer to creating music that transmits his bare soul to the listener without much sonic trickery to get in the way. In the wrong hands, such a Spartan approach could end up boring, but in Halstead's case, it's completely transfixing and true.
  5. Under The Radar
    Sep 13, 2012
    70
    It's one of the more beautiful albums in recent memory. [Aug/Sep 2012, p.110]
  6. Sep 13, 2012
    69
    Though it may take some time to grow accustomed to, this is a record you'll want to wrap yourself up in.
  7. Sep 13, 2012
    50
    The songs on Palindrome Hunches are certainly pretty and play perfectly as background music for a variety of endeavors (washing dishes, vacuuming, etc.) but not much on here really stands out and catches your attention.

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