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Jun 22, 2023Ultimately, Orpheus Descending ranks as one of the most commanding and compelling albums of Mellencamp’s entire career.
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Jun 22, 2023Mellencamp's blend of sinewy rhythms and burnished acoustics is recognizably his, yet it draws upon a sound that's now part of a shared past. It's a sound that's aged well, and Mellencamp has aged within it.
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UncutJun 22, 2023Ornery eloquence. [Aug 2023, p.34]
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Jun 22, 2023His vocal range and tone might now haunt the hinterlands often visited by Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, but the rasp from those hard-lived years adds a wonderful lustre to the songs and subjects he’s addressing and the things he’s chosen to write about now. [Jul 2023, p.82]