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Dec 7, 2023The bucolic folk-fingering on display gives the sense that he was gazing out upon the same grand vistas as Pan American.
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The WireDec 6, 2023Where Vernon’s album [For Emma, Forever Ago] registers like a melancholic exorcism of listless youth and failed relationships, Bachman does not engage in that kind of soul searching, though he elicits a similarly potent emotional response. [Jan/Feb 2024, p.77]
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MojoNov 29, 2023Progressive conceptual art, underpinned with profound personal resonances. [Jan 2024, p.87[
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UncutNov 29, 2023When The Roses Come Again feels like something impossibly ancient, sent back to us from some distant future. [Dec 2023, p.32]
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Nov 29, 2023This is, in other words, still serious music, yet it is not necessarily somber. Probably not coincidentally, When the Roses Come Again provides the perfect soundtrack for a drive through a land of woods, farms, and small towns dotted with Dollar General stores and cell towers.
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Nov 29, 2023There are no real songs to speak of—just scenes, which flow together as seamlessly as fields glimpsed from the window of a moving train. The album is clearly meant to be experienced as a single piece of music, and the pacing is immaculate.