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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release for the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter is his first on the New West label.
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- Record Label: New West
- Genre(s): Jazz, Country, Folk, Americana, Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Folk
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Apr 30, 2020LaFarge somehow manages to make the nostalgia sound authentic rather than gimmicky, which is quite an impressive feat.
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Apr 30, 2020The record offers glimpses of living life on the edge, finding redemption, and then weathering life's problems. The narrator has changed, or maybe more accurately been scarred, by his experiences.
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Apr 30, 2020Pokey LaFarge is still working out the math on how to exist in more than one decade at a time, but Rock Bottom Rhapsody has more than enough good things in it that he's probably going to be just fine wherever he finally settles down.
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UncutApr 30, 2020He and the band skillfully avoid any notion of contrivance, instead bending these vintage styles to persuasive effect. [May 2020, p.28]