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May 26, 2017In short, it’s a low-key gem.
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May 11, 2017With existential lyrics about hardship and fate (including reference to his own successful cancer treatments following 2014's Gray Lodge Wisdom), the singer's calm delivery manages to convey gratitude, understanding, pain, and affection across the album and even within single songs.
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MojoMay 9, 2017Rosewood Almanac more than transcends its influences. [Jun 2017, p.93]
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May 9, 2017There’s no denying that he’s operating in a vastly oversubscribed field, but Rosewood Almanac delivers in an economical 34 minutes as vividly and as seductively as any other 21st century confessional singer-songwriter you care to mention.
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May 22, 2017Stratton’s ambitions are far more modest, but the new album quite successfully transports your attention away from the banal.
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UncutMay 9, 2017Stratton's accessible but deep-rooted approach embraces a barbed undertow in opener "Light Blue," while dashing arrangements--slivers of stringed wonder deployed to resonate effect on "Vanishing Class"--illuminates his songwriting craft. [Jun 2017, p.37]
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Q MagazineAug 11, 2017Stratton is much richer musically than lyrically but, like a fast-flowing stream, he carries you along with him regardless. [Sep 2017, p.115]
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May 9, 2017The mood throughout is of beauty rather than bite, slowly waking up to the world.