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Reviews (2)
PopMatters
d. 18. Dec. 2015
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Steve Horowitz
d. 18. Dec. 2015
"O'Brien is not particularly introspective, nor does he really stick to traditional forms despite the mostly acoustic folk style he employs. The songs have a minimalist feel. There is a sparseness to the arrangements and lots of silence between notes. The densest song here, O'Brien's other co-write with Hadley "I Gotta Move", uses more instruments to give a sense of the crowded place from which the narrator needs to relocate from. He does this with a sense of fun. Moving can liberate one through the downsizing from one's possessions-even if that may involve acquiring someone else's".
fRoots
2016 March
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John Atkins
2016 March
"Playing mandolin, fiddle banjo and guitar, O'Brien drives each performance and his easy-on-the-ear voice leads the way, occasionally enhanced with duet vocals from Jan Fabricus. They hit form early on with "Go Down To The River" from the Billy/Bragg/Woody Guthrie songbook and continue right to the last cut, an excellent song from O'Brien and Sarah Jarosz, "The Water Is Wise". With O'Brien even the titles have humour and despite the underlying divorce theme, this still comes acroos as a happy, bouncy record".