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01. Life On Earth
02. Best Day
03. Not Alone
04. Lennon and McCartney
05. Good as Gold
06. The Great Escape
07. Father
08. Virginia Woolf
09. Peggy
10. First Love
11. Still Life

"Built strongly on these women’s intuitive harmonies, the songs fall aesthetically somewhere between Dar Williams’s more recent albums and early offerings from the Waifs. Their lyrics are richly complex although initially simple; and the arrangements on this album are mostly quiet sparse – sticking to guitar and piano while letting their alternating lead-and-harmony voices rule the roost. There’s a certain warmth and enveloping spirit to these songs, which feel like home.

Here, the women consider on all the varied confusions and epiphanies of love and life in general, opening with the line, "I’ve been trying to make a masterpiece but I’ve been coloring all the wrong things." It takes them eleven songs, but they finally reach a catharsis with "Still Life" – a song about resigning to, perhaps, the fact that there’s no such thing as "wrong things" to color.

In between are simple explorations of love and family. Easy highlights include "Lennon & McCartney" and "Father," both with slightly creepy piano parts holding up deeply ruminative lyrics about what matters most. But, listen for yourself and you’re sure to find plenty more to sink your teeth into." By Kim Ruehl, for FolkAlley.com

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