New Reviews for January 12, 2024

Lovegaze
Fat Possum Records
The harpist demonstrates her range from soundscape weaver to art-pop maverick on her bewildering debut album.
- Paul Simpson
Iechyd Da
Domino
The British singer/songwriter finds buoyancy and resilience on his gorgeously arranged fifth LP.
- Timothy Monger
Big Sigh
Chrysalis Records / SD
The songwriter emerges from a period of pandemic-provoked writer's block with a compellingly explicit post-breakup album.
- Marcy Donelson
Twists (A Visitor Arrives)
Bureau B
The Düsseldorf-based group refine their sensuous blend of dub, funk, and electro, coming closer to a 1980s art-rock sound.
- Paul Simpson
Forgotten Arias
Erato
Famed countertenor is in excellent voice on this collection of largely obscure arias.
- James Manheim
Peter Graham: Force of Nature
Naxos
Instrumental and compositional virtuosity make for an extraordinary band album.
- James Manheim
Profesión
PentaTone Classics
One of the top guitarists of the day turns to South American music.
- James Manheim
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet & Quintet
Harmonia Mundi
Splendid performance of Schumann's two big chamber works for piano and strings catches the differences between them.
- James Manheim
Wreck Your Life
AllMusic Staff Pick - January 12, 2024
October 3, 1995
While Old 97's second album, 1995's Wreck Your Life, continues the forlorn West Texas twang-a-billy that they pioneered with their debut, the sharp songwriting of vocalist Rhett Miller steps out to the forefront this time around. He weeps through the lovesick romp "Doreen" and chunks through longtime favorite "Big Brown Eyes" with a newfound poetic touch to the age-old traumas of love
- Zac Johnson

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