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- Summary: The ninth full-length solo release for the singer-songwriter was recorded over four days in Nashville and was mixed by Tucker Martine.
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- Record Label: Yep Roc
- Genre(s): Folk
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Feb 1, 2018Phillips’ melodies are solid and simplistically accessible, never swamping the lyric’s articulate message; protest songs have rarely been so polite in their persuasiveness.
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Feb 22, 2018Full of heart, courage, and passion, Widdershins finds Grant-Lee Phillips going from strength to strength after The Narrows, and it ranks with his best solo efforts.
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Feb 1, 2018Locating the sweet spot where spontaneity and polish meet, Widdershins swings in all the right directions.
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Feb 20, 2018All told, it’s a finely wrought collection that could appeal to fans of The Decemberists or Vetiver as much as some of those longer-in-the-tooth bands.
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Feb 21, 2018Widdershins may be one of those albums we play in a few years' time when we're having a "did that really happen?" moment. The great thing is, that regardless of the subject matter it's a fine piece of work.
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MagnetApr 17, 2018He's most successful when stripping down his lyrical ideas and melodic underpinnings to their simplest expressions, in a live-in-the-studio trio format. [No. 150, p.55]
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MojoFeb 1, 2018Protest and dissent rarely sounds less strident than on Widdershins, but any resistance to the dark tide is an inherently good thing. [Mar 2018, p.96]
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