Dangerous : the double album
Morgan Wallen
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Reviews (2)
Folk radio UK
d. 1. Mar. 2021
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Billy Rough
d. 1. Mar. 2021
"Last Mile Home is the final part of Jon Boden's post-climate change trilogy originating in 2009's Songs from the Floodplains, followed by 2017's Afterglow. This poignant third album sees Jon return to a more acoustic and spiritual sound following the latter's industrial vibe and Songs from the Floodplains urban vibe. The album's story is of an older couple leaving their home on the edge of Sheffield to walk, through a post-climactic landscape, the eighty miles to the North Sea coast in the aim of finding a new home. Opening with the sounds of birdsong, Last Mile Home flirts with folklore, spirituality, history, philosophy, and the natural world in a considered, and experienced narrative on life, loss, and the end of the world, or rather, the emergence of a world where nature dominates rather than mankind ... Last Mile Home sees a return to nature, both metaphorically and physically in an album rich in gorgeous melodies and lyrical poetry ... An exquisitely moving conclusion to Jon's trilogy. This one will stay with you".
Songlines
2021 May
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Tim Cumming
2021 May
"Last instalment of trilogy makes for compelling post-apocalyptic pilgrimage music: The sound is fairly raw and up-close, eschewing the production sheen and high concepts embedded in Songs from the Flood Plain and the carnivalesque Afterglow. In dialling down the conceptual drama, and reeling in Boden's own walking pilgrimage as the album's central driver, it's the most compelling and intimate of the trilogy. Songs draw on the leys of Alfred Watkins ('Old Straight Track'), on wild swimming ('Cinnamon Water'), on birdsong and wild flowers, and there are guest turns from Mary Hampton, as well as compelling nature recordings made on wax cylinder - take that, vinyl heads. It has its own unique sound-world, and is a lyrically compelling journey, inside and out".