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Jun 4, 2013What remains a constant is the warm murmur of the voice delivering tales from the heart with a literary confidence few in his field can match.
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Feb 12, 2013It’s an album whose ingenuous, often nakedly honest songwriting offers an emotional fist gloved in arrangements of seductive velvet.
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Q MagazineFeb 8, 2013The baroque embellishments of Nowhere To Go and Blind Eye are a perfect dressing for the emotions that created them. [Mar 2013, p.104]
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Feb 5, 2013Not a single note feels unplanned, yet every lick also comes across as completely natural.
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Feb 5, 2013Ron Sexsmith writes with a similar emotional honesty to Mark Everett, but in a more classic style, akin to the moving simplicity of Tim Hardin.
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Feb 5, 2013Musically we're in familiar folky, country territory, with long-time collaborator Mitchell Froom on production duties; the bluesy Snake Road and the ethereal string and French horn arrangement on Blind Eye are particularly good.
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Feb 5, 2013Highlights include the folky "Sneak Out the Back Door," the jaunty, joyous-sounding, and lovely "Blind Eye" (which sounds just a little bit like vintage Donovan without the hippy-dippy lyrics), and the oddly hopeful (for Sexsmith, anyway) "Life After a Broken Heart," although the whole album feels like a uniform meditation on aging, mortality, and the affirming wish to go forward in spite of what's been.
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Feb 5, 2013Forever Endeavour is indeed a humble record, but as with its touchstones, the album's power lies in its simplicity.
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Feb 14, 2013Overall, though, the album is crisp and straightforward, making Forever Endeavor a big step toward Sexsmith gaining household-name status.
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UncutFeb 5, 2013A delicate, moving album. [Mar 2013, p.80]
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Feb 5, 2013Forever Endeavour may be as solid a record as he’s has ever made, but it’s also more of the same, a retrenching rather than an expansion of his capabilities.