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- Record Label: Highway 20 Records
- Release Date: Apr 24, 2020
- Summary: The latest full-length release for the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter was produced with Ray Kennedy and Tom Overby.
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- Record Label: Highway 20 Records
- Genre(s): Folk
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Positive: 17 out of 19
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Mixed: 2 out of 19
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Negative: 0 out of 19
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Q MagazineApr 21, 2020It's the voice that carries it all: rawer and more rousing by the minute. [Jun 2020, p.108]
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Apr 27, 2020Better Souls Good Angels was written and recorded well before the pandemic. But the album, with its darkness tinged with glimmers of hope, its rage touched with tenderness, is very much one for our terrible time.
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Apr 24, 2020As a songwriter and a storyteller, she’s simply never recorded anything quite like it. After so long in the game, it’s miraculous to hear her take such a fresh approach to her sound.
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Apr 21, 2020There are songs where she’s smoothed out the edges somewhat. That, with the raw instrumentation framing it, makes this one of her stronger vocal outings.
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Apr 24, 2020Good Souls Better Angels is proof that even legends like Lucinda don’t just leave their best work behind them one day: They keep writing and making as long as they can, challenging people to listen to their newest music with the notion that it could be some of their best.
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Apr 24, 2020The guitar playing throughout is fantastic, rhythm and lead entwining around Williams’s beautiful, ruined voice, rising to a fury on tough rockers. ... It is an angry record but one that can make you shake your fist into the void and feel that, at least, no matter how bad things might look, you are not alone.
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Apr 23, 2020There are moments when it all starts to feel a little bit too doom-laden. But Williams saves not only the best, but the most hopeful, until last. ... An impressive but relentless album.
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Positive: 3 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 0 out of 3
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Apr 27, 2020
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