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May 28, 2019Like a prayer, The Saint of Lost Causes best listened to alone and deliberately. It’s too close and intimate to put on when there are others present unless they also plan on listening in silence. It’s a lot to ask the modern, harried soul to lay low and meditate on a record, but listen any other way and it’s all, well, a lost cause.
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May 28, 2019The songs all have a feel that is timeless and reverential of the past, while still moving forward along the twisted turns of America.
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May 24, 2019Only a confident and fearless songwriter could take on this kind of subject matter and make it resonate.
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May 24, 2019The 12 songs on The Saint of Lost Causes coalesce into a larger story of malaise that's powerful without turning histrionic, and this is powerful music that's both timely and timeless.
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May 24, 2019Apart from a few genre exercises that, at this point, can feel phoned-in from a stylist as well-studied as Earle (see the honky-tonking “Pacific North Western Blues”), The Saint of Lost Causes lives up to its title, serving as a refreshing reminder of what the songwriter has always done best.
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Positive: 5 out of 7
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Jun 22, 2023This is a masterpiece. Pure and haunting. One of my favorite albums ever.
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Aug 24, 2019
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May 30, 2019