Iowa dream : a collection of demos, home recordings, and lost songs

"Best New Reissue" - "The latest posthumous album from the groundbreaking artist feels like one of his truest, 19 "demos" that reveal his elegant songwriting, his disregard for genre, and his boundless mind".

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"This isn't only for completists - anyone will thrill to Russell, whose ability to anchor wandering thought with melodic resolution is as strong as Bob Dylan's. His naivety is palpable here, and might be a bit much for some, with the title track and Just Regular People truly childlike. But that guileless stance, staring up at the world in confusion, hurt and wonder, is what sets Russell apart, none more so than on a pair of devastatingly unrequited love songs, Words of Love and In Love With You for the Last Time: two new classics on a set full of them".

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"The 19 tracks here are all over the place, true to form for Russell and his ever-expanding inspirations. These demos never landed him a major-label contract, but it's hard to imagine what a major label of the mid-'70s or early '80s would have done with music this far ahead of the curve. For all the fans who discovered Russell after his passing, collections like Iowa Dream are bittersweet time capsules, holding new evidence of his one-of-a-kind talents that still occupy a space all their own, even when unearthed decades later".

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