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- Summary: The 11th full-length studio release from husband-and-wife duo The Handsome Family is its first studio release since 2016's Unseen.
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- Record Label: Milk & Scissors Music
- Genre(s): Folk, Alt-Country, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Contemporary Folk, Indie Folk
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MojoSep 11, 2023Accompanied by electronic and acoustic instruments, Brett's baritone sounds less sombre on this album, more rich, relaxed, even crooning on Strawberry Moon - a perfect foil ro Rennie's vision of a world full of blood and ghosts. [Oct 2023, p.83]
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Sep 11, 2023There's too much life and imagination in the Handsome Family's work to not find some sort of joy in it, and they're far too good at writing songs and working them up to not earn your admiration. If being bummed out allows someone to make an album as good as Hollow, maybe there's some upside to it after all.
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UncutSep 11, 2023A surreal sense of the macabre in everyday life remains their MO, from "Skunks"' shuffling crawl space inhabitants to the winged appetites of the softly intoned "Mothballs". [Oct 2023, p.29]
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Sep 11, 2023Their power remains in full effect on their latest, Hollow. At 11 new songs, their first LP since Unseen in 2016 strikes a balance between foreboding quiet numbers and deceptively airy tracks that belie the fatalistic lyrical content.
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Sep 11, 2023That these 11 songs evoke such solid mental images of their lyrical content is testament to the power of the Sparks’ songwriting capabilities, and the duo’s lasting aptitude for storytelling. And the timely, primal paean to Mother Earth weaving its wonderful way through Hollow is enough to send you off to the woods with no intention of returning.