- Record Label: Suicide Squeeze
- Release Date: May 26, 2015
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May 27, 2015She’s not an ostentatious player, although she certainly has the chops; she seldom solos and usually avoids the fussy filigrees that demonstrate technique as much as they serve the song.
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May 27, 2015It’s a meandering, post-folk record with fingerpicked acoustic guitar at the center, and it relates back to the powerful, unsettling, what-comes-after-tradition impulse that musicians around the world were working out from the mid-’60s to the early ’70s.
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May 27, 2015Neither particularly sad nor happy, Oh Man, Cover the Ground has a sort of ramshackle, neo-folk nonchalance that might not make much of an impact unless you're willing to slow down with it and enjoy it for the contemplative mood piece it is.
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May 27, 2015Those looking for standout singles and sing-along choruses best search elsewhere, but for fans of downtempo folk, there is a lot to appreciate here.
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May 27, 2015Shana Cleveland joins an ever-expanding roster in the folk resurgence of the past several years alongside artists like Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten. But before she can match the most recent works of those two artists, she’ll need to work on differentiating her songs.