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  • Summary: The fifth full-length release for singer-songwriter features production from Andrija Tokic and was recorded in Nashville, where the Pennsylvanian moved to recently.
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  • Record Label: Dualtone Music
  • Genre(s): Folk, Americana, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter, Alternative Country-Rock, Alternative Folk
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Changes
Things could be stranger but I don't know how I'm going through changes now I could spend a lifetime figuring it out I'm going through changes... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 4
  2. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Aug 13, 2015
    80
    A highly listenable rebirth.
  2. Uncut
    Aug 13, 2015
    80
    The spirit moves zeroes in on [the lines separating faith and hope, optimism and cynicism, and emotioanl carnage] in bare, existential terms... with the ferocity of a soul singer pushed to the edge. [Aug 2015, p.80]
  3. Aug 13, 2015
    70
    The Spirit Moves sounds like a sure-footed step in the right direction.
  4. Aug 13, 2015
    60
    For all the potency of Slim’s feelings, however, the album’s downfall is that it is musically and lyrically as well-trodden as his battered, beating heart.