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  • Summary: The second full-length release for the Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter features contributions from Charlie Hall, Paul Sukeena, Mary Lattimore, Mike Polizze, Nathan Bowles, and Dan Provenzano.
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  1. Dec 12, 2018
    80
    Trouble Anyway announces the arrival of an artist who fits neatly into no category but thrives in the inbetween. [Jan 2019, p.13]
  2. Dec 12, 2018
    80
    Even more striking is the way she folds all this talent into her songs, keeping all the bits distinct while shaping them into a complicated, intricate whole that breathes like a living creature. Nicely done.
  3. Dec 12, 2018
    72
    Each of her songs has a steely core built from lyrics that examine heartache and vulnerability.
  4. Mojo
    Dec 12, 2018
    60
    Trouble Anyway is a much more fleshed-out, even lush proposition [than her 2016 debut, Out Of Love]. [Jan 2019, p.90]
  5. Dec 17, 2018
    60
    The Trouble, with its richly twangy slide, spooky reverb and oblique enchantments, is particularly powerful, but throughout, Middleman’s voice is dark and engaging, her songs possessed of a deceptively subtle charm.
  6. Q Magazine
    Dec 18, 2018
    60
    Her solo incarnation is finer-framed, a collection of country-dusted ballads and Laurel canyon laments run through a Kurt Vile filter. [Feb 2019, p.115]