Existential beast

"Miranda Lee Richards' fourth album, Existential Beast, follows 2016's Echoes of the Dreamtime by just a year, a quick turnaround for a songwriter who's gone several years between records in the past. It comes with a lusher presentation, too, edging deeper into psychedelic folk-rock while hanging onto a country influence and her distinctly Laurel Canyon-esque sound ... Existential Beast proves to be a fitting title for an album that is very much of its time while sometimes eerily evoking the music and, sadly, topics of a half-century prior.".

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"Essential Beast is an album that grows and grows with successive relistens. At first it seems just wonderful, a beautiful dreamy confection, but is soon revealed as both superb and subtly layered. Few albums as good as this pass our way - and this reveals that Miranda Lee Richards is just growing in her abilities, although the unimaginable better than this would have discerning music listeners fainting in the streets from the demonstrable beauty".

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" ... an album that puts the "cosmic" in cosmic American music and whose philosophical lyrics earn its title. Even at its most upbeat, this is a dark record with strong psychedelic overtones that follow her from style to style ... ".