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Quotes about the new record

"15 songs that should keep listeners thinking -- of Lucinda Williams and Roseanne Cash, for starters. .... Haunting vocals, melodies and rhythms that keep folding back on themselves, creating dreamlike sequences that have a cumulative effect. It's not hard to imagine Emmylou Harris or Lucinda Williams covering many of these songs, but it’s not as if Mary Battiata and her band-mates have any trouble casting their own spells, one after another. Of course, given a lineup that features a lot of Washington-bred talent, plus guest lap steel guitarist Ben Peeler and co-producer and multi-instrumentalist Philip Stevenson, that’s not surprising.” -- The Washington Post

"Covering revolutions, civil wars, famines and two genocides as a foreign correspondent is not the normal stuff of singer-songwriter bios, and though she doesn’t directly address any of her experiences — the album title, taken from a Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, “Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorage is quicksand,” might perhaps be read as a summary of them -- it’s hard not to imagine that they informed her lyric sensibility. Equally, filing stories on horrors almost beyond words may help explain the unsettling edginess and concision of her songwriting. Part twang, part folk, part pop, Battiata is not the most accessible of songwriters, but she's all the more rewarding for that.” -- John Conquest, 3rd Coast Music (4-star review).

 

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