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Jun 9, 2014rouble & Love is unlike any other "heartbreak and healing" album; its hard-won, experiential, Buddhist-like wisdom borders on the profound.
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Jun 19, 2014Like 2010's The Foundling, this seventh studio LP draws marrow from Gauthier's bones, cauterizing the wounds of a relationship into one of the most devastating breakup albums of all time.
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MojoJul 2, 2014Her band is spare and empathetic, and she's a smart enough writer to avoid mawkishness and dramatics. Which just makes it grab you harder. [Aug 2014, p.93]
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Jul 1, 2014Trouble & Love is perhaps her most thoughtprovoking set since 2005’s Mercy Now, full of literate musings and believable characters.
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Jun 10, 2014The eight songs, culled from a crop of 30 that came in the wake of a difficult breakup, become dirge-like if you put them on in the background. Shut out the distractions and bring them in close, and they become razor-sharp reflections of the long road out of purgatory.
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Jun 9, 2014She's a straight shooter, and Trouble & Love hits right to the heart.
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Oct 3, 2014Gauthier’s detailed, insightful lyrics and powerfully emotive delivery makes one want to hurt.
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UncutJun 9, 2014It's all gracefully wrought. [Jul 2014, p.73]
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Sep 3, 2014With songs as downcast and despondent as “False From True,” “Worthy” and the title track, the steady ache doesn’t abide all that quickly. That said, Trouble & Love does find some cause to break the stranglehold of sadness and despair.
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Jun 9, 2014It’s a break-up album that’s perhaps a touch too unremittingly bleak for the closing resolution of “Another Train” (“I’m moving on, through the past, through the pain, waiting on another train”) to completely convince.