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Jan 13, 2023Yorkston has couched his thoughtful, insightful songs in many musical forms, all of them quite successful. His teamwork with the Second Hand Orchestra, and especially with Persson, results in some of the most beautiful and moving music he's made, which is high praise indeed.
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Jan 12, 2023A work of real refinement, ‘The Great White Sea Eagle’ is peppered with jewels.
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MojoJan 12, 2023The result is brooding, often humorous musing on life, joy, occasionally death. ... But it's tender love song Mary, with its meandering sax, that stops you. [Feb 2023, p.92]
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Jan 12, 2023By the time we reach final track A Hollow Skeleton Lifts A Heavy Wing it’s noticeable how familiar the songs already seem to feel, a special quality that confirms the album to be significantly greater than the sum of its individual parts.
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Jan 12, 2023It’s these 12 weary waltzes and bright ballads, written gazing upon the sea from the window of his Cellardyke studio, that will find their way into your heart forever.
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UncutJan 12, 2023Songs crisp as winter sunlight. [Feb 2023, p.36]
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Jan 20, 2023It’s a beautiful, hand made collection of natural and unforced songs to be treasured.