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- Summary: Produced by Tucker Martine, the latest album for Grammy-nominated Tift Merritt features My Morning Jacket's Jim James and Greg Leisz as guests.
- Record Label: Fantasy
- Genre(s): Alternative, Country
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| See You On The Moon | |
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| Three legged dog, remember when you brought him home. He was talking to himself cause he'd always been alone. April is a fine time, just thought... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Mixed: 4 out of 10
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See You On The Moon still occasionally veers toward the kind of generic lite-roots music that dominates rom-com soundtracks and commercials for long-distance service, but more often, Merritt tries to do a little more with what she has.
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This time, there are moments of eye-opening wonder.
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There's a modesty in Tift Merritt's music that makes it more compelling than a lot of artists who make a grand show of their joy and/or grief, and See You on the Moon finds Merritt weaving her spell as effectively as ever; it's marvelous music well worth your time and attention.
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Her delicate pipes may consign her to small sketches and close studies, but Merritt's at least proven with See You on the Moon that she has the lyrical goods to deliver intimately pleasurable, deeply felt folk-pop.
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Q MagazineIt's still a quietly engaguing offering blessed with a lyrical lightness and organic Tucker Martine production. [Jul 2010, p.135]
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Under The RadarMoon is most grounded to Earth when Merrit stays in her comfort zone. [Spring 2010, p.75]
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See You on the Moon’s mid-tempo anthems hover with a decorative shimmer that matches their wispy bedsit sentiments.
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Dec 28, 2010song driven by hand claps and framed by strings about making a mixtape for a potential lover, the narrator seeing herself â
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