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- Summary: The third full-length release for the North Carolina trio features guest appearances from Amy Ray, Angel Olsen, and Mirah Zeitllyn.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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| Under the calvander sign Hitched a ride to the carteret county line Down on my knees by the bogue bank tide Prayed to something for some kind Any... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Feb 26, 2016The songs on How To Dance--while immediately ingratiating--reveal more depth with each spin, opening up entire universes within the backwoods. The lyrics allude to mythology and folktales, and as McEntire sings them, it’s easy to imagine her with her eyes closed, receiving the words from some netherworld.
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Mar 16, 2016Although the album pushes the envelope lyrically, the music doesn't always elevate the ideas as much as it could. Mount Moriah's deftly woven, loose Americana is more a vessel for McEntire's poetry than anything else.
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Feb 23, 2016This is an album to savor from a band that continues to grow and to surprise.
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Apr 4, 2016How to Dance is a quietly remarkable work from a group that can make modesty and excellence coexist.
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Feb 23, 2016How to Dance is most invigorating when it sweeps the band’s easy-rolling tunes off of the front porch and drops them at the roadhouse.
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UncutFeb 23, 2016While Heather McEntire's wonderful voice is a natural country conduit, there's not quite enough around it, her bandmates opting to frame her tones in fairly pedestrian roots-rock settings. [Mar 2016, p.76]
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Mar 2, 2016While McEntire’s aimlessness feels honest and satisfying in its questing, it also makes for an album with plenty of movement but less, perhaps, in the way of progress.